CVE-2018-1259: Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference

October 17, 2018 (updated September 15, 2021)

Spring Data Commons, versions 1.13 prior to 1.13.12 and 2.0 prior to 2.0.7, used in combination with XMLBeam 1.4.14 or earlier versions, contains a property binder vulnerability caused by improper restriction of XML external entity references as underlying library XMLBeam does not restrict external reference expansion. An unauthenticated remote malicious user can supply specially crafted request parameters against Spring Data’s projection-based request payload binding to access arbitrary files on the system.

References

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1809
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3768
github.com/advisories/GHSA-m929-7fr6-cvjg
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1259
pivotal.io/security/cve-2018-1259

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