CVE-2017-8046: Pivotal Software Spring Data Rest

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 74.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Malicious PATCH requests submitted to servers using Spring Data REST versions prior to 2.6.9 (Ingalls SR9), versions prior to 3.0.1 (Kay SR1) and Spring Boot versions prior to 1.5.9, 2.0 M6 can use specially crafted JSON data to run arbitrary Java code.

Affected products

• Pivotal Software Spring Data Rest: version 3.0.0 only
• VMware Spring Boot: before 1.5.9 (fixed in 1.5.9); version 2.0.0 only
• VMware Spring Data Rest: before 2.6.9 (fixed in 2.6.9); version 3.0.0 only

Published 2018-01-04. Last modified 2026-06-26.