Vulnerability Database

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Total vulnerabilities in the database

CVE-2018-1196

Spring Boot supports an embedded launch script that can be used to easily run the application as a systemd or init.d linux service. The script included with Spring Boot 1.5.9 and earlier and 2.0.0.M1 through 2.0.0.M7 is susceptible to a symlink attack which allows the "run_user" to overwrite and take ownership of any file on the same system. In order to instigate the attack, the application must be installed as a service and the "run_user" requires shell access to the server. Spring Boot application that are not installed as a service, or are not using the embedded launch script are not susceptible.

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: Medium
  • Score: 5.9
  • AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Low
  • Score: 4.3
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
vmware / spring_boot - 1.5.9.x
vmware / spring_boot 2.0.0-milestone2 2.0.0-milestone2.x
vmware / spring_boot 2.0.0-milestone1 2.0.0-milestone1.x
vmware / spring_boot 2.0.0-milestone4 2.0.0-milestone4.x
vmware / spring_boot 2.0.0-milestone3 2.0.0-milestone3.x
vmware / spring_boot 2.0.0-milestone5 2.0.0-milestone5.x
vmware / spring_boot 2.0.0-milestone6 2.0.0-milestone6.x
vmware / spring_boot 2.0.0-milestone7 2.0.0-milestone7.x
org.springframework.boot / spring-boot 1.5.0 1.5.10