CVE-2018-1273
Critical 9.8 Exploited in the wild (KEV) Used in ransomware campaigns
Confirmed active exploitation — CISA KEV catalog
- Name
- VMware Tanzu Spring Data Commons Property Binder Vulnerability
- Added to catalog
- Remediation due date (US federal)
- Required action
- Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Description
Spring Data Commons, versions prior to 1.13 to 1.13.10, 2.0 to 2.0.5, and older unsupported versions, contain a property binder vulnerability caused by improper neutralization of special elements. An unauthenticated remote malicious user (or attacker) can supply specially crafted request parameters against Spring Data REST backed HTTP resources or using Spring Data's projection-based request payload binding hat can lead to a remote code execution attack.
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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9.8 (CRITICAL)
Score source: NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - EPSS — exploit probability
- 97% (percentile: 100) as of 1 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-94
Affected products
broadcom: spring data commons; pivotal_software: spring data rest; vmware: spring data rest; apache: ignite; oracle: financial services crime and compliance management studio
References
- https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2018-1273 Vendor Advisory
- https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2018-1273 Vendor Advisory
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html PatchThird Party Advisory
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html PatchThird Party Advisory
- http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/ignite-dev/201807.mbox/%3CCAK0qHnqzfzm… Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
- http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/ignite-dev/201807.mbox/%3CCAK0qHnqzfzm… Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2018… US Government Resource