CVE-2018-1230
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 · uneditedPivotal Spring Batch Admin, all versions, does not contain cross site request forgery protection. A remote unauthenticated user could craft a malicious site that executes requests to Spring Batch Admin. This issue has not been patched because Spring Batch Admin has reached end of life.
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 confidenceSpring Batch Admin lacks CSRF protection, allowing remote unauthenticated attackers to trick authenticated users into executing unintended requests via maliciously crafted web pages.
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 dataall versionsCVSS 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 installationSearch for spring-batch-admin in application directories, WAR files, or running processes. Check for the presence of spring-batch-admin resources in your deployment artifacts.Affected if Spring Batch Admin is present in the environment
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Confirm the application is web-accessibleCheck if the Spring Batch Admin web application is accessible via HTTP/HTTPS by accessing common paths such as /batch-admin, /spring-batch-admin, or the application's root context.Affected if The Spring Batch Admin interface is exposed over HTTP/HTTPS
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Verify authentication is enabledReview the application's security configuration (typically in web.xml or Spring security configuration files) to determine whether form-based or other authentication is configured for the web interface.Affected if Authentication is configured for the web interface (authenticated users can be tricked into making unintended requests)
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Check for CSRF token implementationInspect the application's HTML forms and AJAX requests for the presence of CSRF tokens (look for hidden fields named _csrf or similar token parameters in POST requests).Affected if No CSRF tokens are found in forms and requests (indicating CSRF protection is not implemented)
The environment is affected if Spring Batch Admin is deployed and accessible via web with authentication enabled but without CSRF token protection in place.
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 dataSince Spring Batch Admin is end-of-life and will not receive patches, the recommended remediation is to discontinue use and migrate to an actively maintained alternative solution or implement compensating controls such as a WAF.
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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-2018-1230 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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