CVE-2020-5428: Possibility of SQL Injection in Spring Cloud Task Execution Sorting Query

LOW | JANUARY 25, 2021 | CVE-2020-5428

Description

In applications using Spring Cloud Task 2.2.4.RELEASE and below, may be vulnerable to SQL injection when exercising certain lookup queries in the TaskExplorer.

Affected Spring Products and Versions

Spring Cloud Task
- 2.2.4 and below

Mitigation

Users should upgrade to 2.2.5 and higher. Releases that have fixed this issue include:

Spring Cloud Task
- 2.3.0
- 2.2.5

Credit

This issue was identified and responsibly reported by Surfijen Bani of CHECK24 Factory GmbH.

History

2020-11-03: Initial vulnerability identified.

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