Spring Framework, versions 5.0 prior to 5.0.5 and versions 4.3 prior to 4.3.15 and older unsupported versions, provide client-side support for multipart requests. When Spring MVC or Spring WebFlux server application (server A) receives input from a remote client, and then uses that input to make a multipart request to another server (server B), it can be exposed to an attack, where an extra multipart is inserted in the content of the request from server A, causing server B to use the wrong value for a part it expects. This could to lead privilege escalation, for example, if the part content represents a username or user roles.
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
Find out more about CVE-2018-1272 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
| CVSS3 Base Score | 5.3 |
|---|---|
| CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
| Attack Vector | Network |
| Attack Complexity | High |
| Privileges Required | Low |
| User Interaction | None |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | None |
| Integrity Impact | High |
| Availability Impact | None |
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat JBoss Fuse 7 | RHSA-2018:2669 | 2018-09-11 |
| Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes 1.0 | RHSA-2018:1320 | 2018-05-03 |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9.0 | opendaylight | Under investigation |
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12.0 | opendaylight | Under investigation |
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11.0 (Ocata) | opendaylight | Under investigation |
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 | opendaylight | Under investigation |
| Red Hat Mobile Application Platform On-Premise 4 | spring | Under investigation |
| Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3 | tomcat | Not affected |
| Red Hat JBoss Portal Platform 6 | spring | Not affected |
| Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 | spring | Will not fix |
| Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 | spring | Will not fix |
| Red Hat JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 5 | spring | Will not fix |
| Red Hat JBoss EWS 2 | tomcat | Not affected |
| Red Hat JBoss EAP 7 | undertow | Not affected |
| Red Hat JBoss EAP 6 | jbossweb | Not affected |
| Red Hat JBoss EAP 5 | jbossweb | Will not fix |
| Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 | spring | Will not fix |
| Red Hat JBoss BRMS 5 | spring | Will not fix |
| Red Hat JBoss A-MQ 6 | spring | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Gluster Storage 3 | rhevm-dependencies | Will not fix |
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