CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2018-1257 — Vmware Spring Framework security vulnerability

Medium CVSS 6.5

Spring Framework, versions 5.0.x prior to 5.0.6, versions 4.3.x prior to 4.3.17, and older unsupported versions allows applications to expose STOMP over WebSocket endpoints with a simple, in-memory STOMP broker through the spring-messaging module. A malicious user (or attacker) can craft a message to the broker that can lead to a regular expression, denial of service attack.

Severity
Medium
CVSS
6.5 (3.1)
Published
2018-05-11
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
java/maven

Affected products

  • vmware / spring_framework
  • redhat / openshift
  • oracle / agile_product_lifecycle_management / 9.3.3
  • oracle / agile_product_lifecycle_management / 9.3.4
  • oracle / agile_product_lifecycle_management / 9.3.5
  • oracle / agile_product_lifecycle_management / 9.3.6

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Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

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Check exposure

  • Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
  • Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
  • Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.

Remediate safely

  • Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
  • Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
  • Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.

Authoritative sources

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