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high 7.5

CVE-2018-1272 json

Possible privilege escalation in org.springframework:spring-core

published 2018-04-06 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-4487-x383-qpph , EUVD-2018-0493

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.1%
EPSS 3.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 87%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.springframework:spring-core 4.3.15, 5.0.5
  • vmware spring_framework 4.3.15, 5.0.5
  • oracle communications_converged_application_server 7.0.0.1
  • oracle communications_diameter_signaling_router 8.3
  • oracle communications_performance_intelligence_center 10.2.1
  • oracle communications_services_gatekeeper 6.1.0.4.0
  • libspring-java Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4.3.19-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2018-1272

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2018-1272 updated cvss 5.3

spring-framework: Multipart content pollution

  • Red Hat JBoss A-MQ 6 spring Red Hat JBoss BRMS 5 spring Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 spring Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 jbossweb jbossweb Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 spring
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat JBoss Fuse Integration Service 2 spring
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 spring Red Hat JBoss SOA Platform 5 spring Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9 (Mitaka) opendaylight Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton) opendaylight Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11 (Ocata) opendaylight Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12 (Pike) opendaylight
    +1 more products
    Red Hat Storage 3 rhevm-dependencies
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Fuse 7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:2669
  • Red Hat Openshift Application Runtimes
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:1320
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 springframework, springframework-tx, springframework-aop, springframework-jms, springframework-orm, springframework-oxm, +14 more Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 jbossweb jbossweb Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 undertow undertow Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 2 tomcat Red Hat JBoss Portal 6 spring Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3 tomcat
    +1 more products
    Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4 spring
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.06% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.0 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.springframework:spring-core
<4.3.15
>=5.0.0, <5.0.5
4.3.15
5.0.5

Affected products

  • Spring by Pivotal Spring Framework

Classification

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References

Sources

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