Pivotal Spring AMQP up to 1.7.9/2.0.5 Hostname Validator information disclosure

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Pivotal Spring AMQP up to 1.7.9/2.0.5. Affected is an unknown function of the component Hostname Validator. The manipulation results in information disclosure. This vulnerability was named CVE-2018-11087. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Pivotal Spring AMQP up to 1.7.9/2.0.5. Affected is an unknown function of the component Hostname Validator. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Pivotal Spring AMQP, 1.x versions prior to 1.7.10 and 2.x versions prior to 2.0.6, expose a man-in-the-middle vulnerability due to lack of hostname validation. A malicious user that has the ability to intercept traffic would be able to view data in transit.

The bug was discovered 09/11/2018. The weakness was presented 09/14/2018 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at pivotal.io. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2018-11087 since 05/14/2018. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1592.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 3 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

Upgrading to version 1.7.8 or 2.0.6 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Vendor

• Pivotal

Name

• Spring AMQP

Version

• 1.7.0
• 1.7.1
• 1.7.2
• 1.7.3
• 1.7.4
• 1.7.5
• 1.7.6
• 1.7.7
• 1.7.8
• 1.7.9
• 2.0.0
• 2.0.1
• 2.0.2
• 2.0.3
• 2.0.4
• 2.0.5

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://pivotal.io/

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