Security Bulletin
Summary
Spring Core is vulnerable to security restriction bypass attacks, to denial of service attacks, and to arbritrary code excution attacks. These could affect watsonx.data.
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2018-1199
DESCRIPTION: Pivotal Spring Security and Spring Framework could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by the failure to consider URL path parameters when processing security constraints. By adding a URL path parameter with special encodings, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass access restrictions and gain access to the server and obtain sensitive information.
CWE: CWE-20: Improper Input Validation
CVSS Source: IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2022-22970
DESCRIPTION: Vmware Tanzu Spring Framework is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in the handling of file uploads. By sending a specially-crafted request, a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CWE: CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
CVSS Source: IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2021-22096
DESCRIPTION: VMware Spring Framework could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions. By sending a specially-crafted input, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the insertion of additional log entries.
CWE: CWE-117: Improper Output Neutralization for Logs
CVSS Source: IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2021-22060
DESCRIPTION: VMware Tanzu Spring Framework could allow a remote authenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by improper input validation. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to insert additional log entries.
CVSS Source: IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score: 4.3
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)
IBM X-Force ID: 220575
DESCRIPTION: Spring Framework could allow a remote authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an unsafe deserialization in the SerializableTypeWrapper class. By sending specially-crafted input, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CWE: CWE-502: Deserialization of Untrusted Data
CVSS Source: IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score: 9
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H)
Affected Products and Versions
| Affected Product(s) | Version(s) |
| watsonx.data | 2.0.0 - 2.0.3 |
Remediation/Fixes
The product needs to be installed or upgraded to the latest available level watsonx.data 2.1 or watsonx.data on CPD 5.1. Installation/upgrade instructions can be found here https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/software-hub/5.1.x?topic=watsonxdata-installing.
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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References
Acknowledgement
Change History
10 Feb 2025: Initial Publication
*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.
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Document Location
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Document Information
Modified date:
10 February 2025
Initial Publish date:
10 February 2025
UID
ibm17182903