vulnerability / NVI-00015004 / Revision 1
Spring Data: Unbounded property-path cache keyed by externally-supplied path string
GitHub lists this reviewed advisory for org.springframework.data:spring-data-commons, org.springframework.data:spring-data-commons, org.springframework.data:spring-data-commons. Published version ranges and source prerequisites are shown below; this is not an inspection of a visitor’s application.
This report has not inspected your inventory, configuration, deployed build, reachability or evidence. A catalog listing and a severity score do not establish exposure or compromise.
01 / Meaning
Why it matters
Published affected context helps an owner decide what evidence to gather. This report has not examined your application.
7.5 high
GitHub source severity; exploitability and local consequence require separate evidence.
As of · GitHub Advisory Database
02 / Applicability
The affected context
Affected versions, configuration prerequisites and known exclusions are public. Confirm each one against the deployed service.
org.springframework.data:spring-data-commons
source listed>= 4.0.0, <= 4.0.5
`src/main/java/org/springframework/data/mapping/context/PersistentPropertyPathFactory.java:175` · Unbounded Resource Allocation (Algorithmic DoS) ### Impact When a consuming module routes user-supplied dot-paths (sort parameters, projection paths, PATCH paths) through `MappingContext.getPersistentPropertyPath(String, Class)`, each distinct string — including invalid ones — is cached forever. A remote attacker can send millions of requests with unique `?sort=aaaa` values and grow the heap until the service OOMs. ### Description `PersistentPropertyPathFactory.propertyPaths` (line 53) is a `ConcurrentHashMap` populated by `getPotentiallyCachedPath()` (line 174-177) via `computeIfAbsent`. The key is `(TypeInformation, rawPathString)`. Crucially, unresolvable paths are also cached (as `PathResolution.unresolved`, line 204) so that the same `InvalidPersistentPropertyPath` can be re-thrown — meaning every distinct garbage string an attacker sends creates a permanent entry. There is no eviction. This is reachable from `AbstractMappingContext.getPersistentPropertyPath(String, Class)` (`AbstractMappingContext.java:345`), which Spring Data REST and several
org.springframework.data:spring-data-commons
source listed>= 3.5.0, <= 3.5.11
`src/main/java/org/springframework/data/mapping/context/PersistentPropertyPathFactory.java:175` · Unbounded Resource Allocation (Algorithmic DoS) ### Impact When a consuming module routes user-supplied dot-paths (sort parameters, projection paths, PATCH paths) through `MappingContext.getPersistentPropertyPath(String, Class)`, each distinct string — including invalid ones — is cached forever. A remote attacker can send millions of requests with unique `?sort=aaaa` values and grow the heap until the service OOMs. ### Description `PersistentPropertyPathFactory.propertyPaths` (line 53) is a `ConcurrentHashMap` populated by `getPotentiallyCachedPath()` (line 174-177) via `computeIfAbsent`. The key is `(TypeInformation, rawPathString)`. Crucially, unresolvable paths are also cached (as `PathResolution.unresolved`, line 204) so that the same `InvalidPersistentPropertyPath` can be re-thrown — meaning every distinct garbage string an attacker sends creates a permanent entry. There is no eviction. This is reachable from `AbstractMappingContext.getPersistentPropertyPath(String, Class)` (`AbstractMappingContext.java:345`), which Spring Data REST and several
org.springframework.data:spring-data-commons
source listed>= 3.4.0, <= 3.4.13
`src/main/java/org/springframework/data/mapping/context/PersistentPropertyPathFactory.java:175` · Unbounded Resource Allocation (Algorithmic DoS) ### Impact When a consuming module routes user-supplied dot-paths (sort parameters, projection paths, PATCH paths) through `MappingContext.getPersistentPropertyPath(String, Class)`, each distinct string — including invalid ones — is cached forever. A remote attacker can send millions of requests with unique `?sort=aaaa` values and grow the heap until the service OOMs. ### Description `PersistentPropertyPathFactory.propertyPaths` (line 53) is a `ConcurrentHashMap` populated by `getPotentiallyCachedPath()` (line 174-177) via `computeIfAbsent`. The key is `(TypeInformation, rawPathString)`. Crucially, unresolvable paths are also cached (as `PathResolution.unresolved`, line 204) so that the same `InvalidPersistentPropertyPath` can be re-thrown — meaning every distinct garbage string an attacker sends creates a permanent entry. There is no eviction. This is reachable from `AbstractMappingContext.getPersistentPropertyPath(String, Class)` (`AbstractMappingContext.java:345`), which Spring Data REST and several
03 / Response
What to do next
- investigate
Identify the exact component and deployed version, examine the linked publisher’s conditions, and retain evidence of any mitigation.
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04 / Limits
What this report cannot establish
- Customer inventory, deployment, reachability and exploitation have not been inspected.
05 / Provenance
Sources you can inspect
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- GHSA-88fw-v6x4-3f58 ↗
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