CVE-2018-1196

Description

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.

Affected packages (1)

• Maven/org.springframework.boot:spring-boot>= 1.5.0, < 1.5.10

CVSS scores

References (3)

• ADVISORYhttps://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xx65-cc7g-9pfp
• ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1196
• WEBhttps://pivotal.io/security/cve-2018-1196