Synchronizing with External Transaction Managers in Spring Cloud Stream Kafka Applications

Other parts in this blog series Part 1: Introduction to Transactions in Spring Cloud Stream Kafka Applications Part 2: Producer Initiated Transactions in Spring Cloud Stream Kafka Applications In the previous part of this blog series, we saw the basics of transaction management, primarily when...

This Week in Spring - October 3rd, 2023

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How're you doin'? I've just flown in from Singapore - where I was keynoting and presenting at SpringOne Singapore - and am now in Antwerp, Belgium for the deliriously fun Devoxx Belgium show. I've missed this show, and it's a...

CVE-2023-34034

A flaw was found in Spring Security's WebFlux framework pattern matching, where it does not properly evaluate certain patterns. A server using path-based pattern matching in WebFlux could allow an attacker to bypass security settings for some request paths, potentially leading to information...

Security Bulletin: IBM MaaS360 Mobile Enterprise Gateway and VPN Module affected by multiple vulnerabilities

Summary A vulnerability contained within Open SSL was addressed in the IBM MaaS360 Cloud Extender VPN Module. Vulnerabilities contained within Spring Framework and Eclipse Jetty a 3rd party component were addressed in the IBM MaaS360 Mobile Enterprise Gateway MEG. Vulnerability Details...

Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in Springfox swagger affect IBM Rational ClearQuest

Summary Springfox swagger used by IBM Rational ClearQuest v10.0 had multiple vulnerabilities. IBM Rational ClearQuest has addressed the applicable CVEs by replacing Springfox swagger with spring doc. Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2018-25031 DESCRIPTION: swagger-ui could allow a remote attacker ...

Exploit for Deserialization of Untrusted Data in Vmware Spring_For_Apache_Kafka

CVE-2023-34040 Spring Kafka Deserialization Remote Code Execut...

A Bootiful Podcast: Spring AI lead Dr. Mark Pollack

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode I talk to Dr. Mark Pollack, lead of the new Spring AI project. This episode was recorded live at SpringOne at VMware Explore 2023, in Las Vegas...

Producer Initiated Transactions in Spring Cloud Stream Kafka Applications

Other parts in this blog series Part 1: Introduction to Transactions in Spring Cloud Stream Kafka Applications This article is part 2 of the blog series in which we look at transactions in detail with Spring Cloud Stream and Apache Kafka. We saw a general introduction to transactions in the...

Amazon Linux 2 : tomcat (ALASTOMCAT8.5-2023-005)

The version of tomcat installed on the remote host is prior to 8.5.79-1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2TOMCAT8.5-2023-005 advisory. A flaw was found in Spring Framework, specifically within two modules called Spring MVC and Spring WebFlux,...

Amazon Linux 2 : tomcat (ALASTOMCAT9-2023-004)

The version of tomcat installed on the remote host is prior to 9.0.65-1. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2TOMCAT9-2023-004 advisory. A flaw was found in Spring Framework, specifically within two modules called Spring MVC and Spring WebFlux, transitively...

Introduction to Transactions in Spring Cloud Stream Kafka Applications

We are starting a new blog series that focuses on working with transactions in Spring Cloud Stream Kafka applications. This blog series covers many low-level details of writing transactional applications with Spring Cloud Stream and Apache Kafka. By the end of this blog series, we hope to give yo...

Security Bulletin: VMware Tanzu Spring for Apache Kafka is vulnerable to CVE-2023-34040 used in IBM Maximo Application Suite - Monitor Component

Summary IBM Maximo Application Suite - Monitor Component uses VMware Tanzu Spring for Apache Kafka which is vulnerable to CVE-2023-34040. Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2023-34040 DESCRIPTION: VMware Tanzu Spring for Apache Kafka could allow a local authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary co...

Security Bulletin: VMware Tanzu Spring Security is vulnerable to CVE-2023-34034 and CVE-2023-34035 used in IBM Maximo Application Suite - Monitor Component

Summary IBM Maximo Application Suite - Monitor Component uses VMware Tanzu Spring Security which is vulnerable to CVE-2023-34034 and CVE-2023-34035. The vulnerabilities in the product component have been addressed. Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2023-34034 DESCRIPTION: VMware Tanzu Spring Securi...

Security Bulletin: Multiple security vulnerabilities affecting Watson Knowledge Catalog for IBM Cloud Pak for Data

Summary Multiple security vulnerabilities impacting Watson Knowledge Catalog for IBM Cloud Pak for Data. These vulnerabilities have been addressed. Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2023-34462 DESCRIPTION: Netty is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw with allocating up to 16MB of he...

This Week in Spring - September 26th, 2023

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How are you? It's September 26th, 2023, and I am in sunny Singapore for SpringOne at VMWare Explore Singapore. If you're around, don't forget to say hi! It's gonna be a fun and busy week in Singapore, and then next week I'm o...

Information Disclosure

org.springframework.graphql:spring-graphql is vulnerable to Information Disclosure. The vulnerability is due to an issue where an application provides a DataLoaderOptions instance when registering batch loader functions through the DefaultBatchLoaderRegistry method leading to information disclosu...

Important: tomcat

Issue Overview: A flaw was found in Spring Framework, specifically within two modules called Spring MVC and Spring WebFlux, transitively affected from Spring Beans, using parameter data binding. This flaw allows an attacker to pass specially-constructed malicious requests to certain parameters an...

Apache Shiro < 1.11.0 Authentication Bypass

Apache Shiro before 1.11.0, when using Apache Shiro with Spring Boot 2.6+, a specially crafted HTTP request may cause an authentication bypass. The authentication bypass occurs when Shiro and Spring Boot are using different pattern-matching techniques. Both Shiro and Spring Boot 2.6 default to An...

Important: tomcat

Issue Overview: A flaw was found in Spring Framework, specifically within two modules called Spring MVC and Spring WebFlux, transitively affected from Spring Beans, using parameter data binding. This flaw allows an attacker to pass specially-constructed malicious requests to certain parameters an...

Paketo Buildpacks Bionic End Of Support

The Spring Boot plugins for Maven and Gradle provide the ability to build Docker images using Cloud Native Buildpacks. By default, Spring Boot uses the CNB builders provided by the Paketo Buildpacks project. What's Changed The Paketo Buildpacks project has announced that Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic-based...