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critical 9.8

CVE-2018-1260 in the critical feed json

Spring Security OAuth vulnerable to remote code execution (RCE)

published 2018-05-11 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-rrpm-pj7p-7j9q , EUVD-2018-0688

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
10.6%
EPSS 10.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 95%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Spring Security OAuth, versions 2.3 prior to 2.3.3, 2.2 prior to 2.2.2, 2.1 prior to 2.1.2, 2.0 prior to 2.0.15 and older unsupported versions contains a remote code execution vulnerability. A malicious user or attacker can craft an authorization request to the authorization endpoint that can lead to remote code execution when the resource owner is forwarded to the approval endpoint.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.springframework.security.oauth:spring-security-oauth2 2.0.15, 2.1.2, 2.2.2, 2.3.3

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2018-1260 updated cvss 6.3

spring-security-oauth: remote code execution in the authorization process

  • Red Hat JBoss Fuse Integration Service 2 spring-security-oauth spring-security-oauth
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Fuse Intergration Services 2.0 based on Fuse 6.3 R8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:2939
  • Red Hat Text-Only RHOAR
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:1809

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

10.62% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.springframework.security.oauth:spring-security-oauth2
>=2.3.0, <2.3.3
>=2.2.0, <2.2.2
>=2.1.0, <2.1.2
>=2.0.0, <2.0.15
>=1.0.0, <=1.0.5
2.3.3
2.2.2
2.1.2
2.0.15

Affected products

  • Pivotal Spring Security OAuth

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code
Technology feeds

References

Sources

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