CVE-2018-1196

mediumpriority · track · 24EPSS 0.012 · 68 %ileDEEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

1.21% (68th) EPSS

CVSS 4.3 · medium

Is it mine?

5 products

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Who says so?

5 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

5.9

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.04.3mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 2.9

v3.05.9mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.2 · impact 3.6

v3.05.9mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:Nsecondary · OSV

v3.05.4mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-59USprimaryCWE-59US

affected products (5)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Dell EMC Spring Boot≤ 2.0.0.M1 - 2.0.0.M7enisa_euvdEU
Dell EMC Spring Boot≤ 1.5.0 - 1.5.9enisa_euvdEU
vmware spring boot≤ 1.5.9nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware spring boot= 2.0.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Maven org.springframework.boot:spring-boot1.5.0 → 1.5.10osvUSpkg:maven/org.springframework.boot/spring-boot

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2024-0528Dell Data Protection Advisor: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2024-02-29csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Dell Data Protection Advisor ausnutzen, um beliebigen Code auszuführen, einen Denial-of-Service-Zustand herbeizuführen, Dateien zu manipulieren, vertrauliche Informationen offenzulegen, seine Berechtigungen zu erweitern oder einen nicht spezifizierten Angriff durchzuführen.
GHSA-xx65-cc7g-9pfpModerate severity vulnerability that affects org.springframework.boot:spring-boot2018-10-18ghsa · osvUS
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.

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sources

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cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd osv cert_bund NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2018-03-19modified 2026-06-17

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references (3)

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