CVE-2017-12881
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedCross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Spring Batch Admin before 1.3.0 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of unspecified victims and submit arbitrary requests, such as exploiting the file upload vulnerability.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · high confidenceThis is a CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery) vulnerability in Spring Batch Admin versions prior to 1.3.0. The flaw allows remote attackers to trick authenticated users into unknowingly submitting arbitrary requests, effectively hijacking their sessions. The description indicates this CSRF can be chained with the file upload vulnerability (CVE-2017-12880) to achieve more severe impact.
Verify against the referenced sources before acting — the references below are authoritative for this CVE, this summary is not.
Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data<= 1.2.1CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Identify Spring Batch Admin versionLocate the Spring Batch Admin JAR file or check the pom.xml dependency version for spring-batch-admin version. Also check the MANIFEST.MF file inside the deployed JAR for the implementation-version attribute.Affected if The installed version is 1.2.1 or earlier (any version below 1.3.0).
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Verify CSRF protection configurationInspect the Spring Security configuration files (typically security-context.xml or similar) to determine if CSRF protection is explicitly enabled. In vulnerable versions, CSRF protection is not enabled by default.Affected if CSRF protection is not enabled or the Spring Security version in use does not have CSRF token support enabled.
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Check for state-changing endpointsReview the application's exposed endpoints to identify operations that perform state changes (such as job execution, job restart, or parameter modifications). These are the endpoints that would be targeted by CSRF attacks.Affected if The application exposes REST endpoints for job management or other state-changing operations without requiring CSRF tokens.
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Confirm authentication mechanismDetermine if the application uses cookie-based authentication (session cookies). CSRF attacks rely on the browser automatically sending cookies with malicious requests.Affected if The application uses session-based authentication where cookies are automatically sent with requests.
A user is affected if their Spring Batch Admin installation is version 1.2.1 or earlier and CSRF protection is not explicitly configured in the Spring Security setup.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataUpgrade Spring Batch Admin to version 1.3.0 or later which contains the CSRF protection fix. Additionally, implement anti-CSRF tokens for state-changing operations and consider implementing SameSite cookie attributes as a defense-in-depth measure.
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
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ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2017-12881 in production — separate from our analysis above.
The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
- The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
- A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon
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