CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2015-7450

Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Published: Jan 02, 2016 | Modified: Apr 12, 2025
CVSS 3.x
9.8
CRITICAL
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
10 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Serialized-object interfaces in certain IBM analytics, business solutions, cognitive, IT infrastructure, and mobile and social products allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted serialized Java object, related to the InvokerTransformer class in the Apache Commons Collections library.

Weakness

The product deserializes untrusted data without sufficiently ensuring that the resulting data will be valid.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Sterling_b2b_integrator Ibm 5.2 (including) 5.2 (including)
Sterling_integrator Ibm 5.1 (including) 5.1 (including)
Tivoli_common_reporting Ibm 2.1 (including) 2.1 (including)
Tivoli_common_reporting Ibm 2.1.1 (including) 2.1.1 (including)
Tivoli_common_reporting Ibm 2.1.1.2 (including) 2.1.1.2 (including)
Tivoli_common_reporting Ibm 3.1 (including) 3.1 (including)
Tivoli_common_reporting Ibm 3.1.0.1 (including) 3.1.0.1 (including)
Tivoli_common_reporting Ibm 3.1.0.2 (including) 3.1.0.2 (including)
Tivoli_common_reporting Ibm 3.1.2 (including) 3.1.2 (including)
Tivoli_common_reporting Ibm 3.1.2.1 (including) 3.1.2.1 (including)
Watson_content_analytics Ibm 3.0 (including) 3.0.0.6 (including)
Watson_content_analytics Ibm 3.5 (including) 3.5.0.3 (including)
Watson_explorer_analytical_components Ibm 10.0 (including) 10.0.0.2 (including)
Watson_explorer_analytical_components Ibm 11.0 (including) 11.0 (including)
Watson_explorer_annotation_administration_console Ibm 10.0 (including) 10.0.0.2 (including)
Watson_explorer_annotation_administration_console Ibm 11.0 (including) 11.0 (including)
Websphere_application_server Ibm 7.0.0.0 (including) 7.0.0.0 (including)
Websphere_application_server Ibm 8.0.0.0 (including) 8.0.0.0 (including)
Websphere_application_server Ibm 8.5 (including) 8.5 (including)
Websphere_application_server Ibm 8.5.0.0 (including) 8.5.0.0 (including)
Websphere_application_server Ibm 8.5.5.5 (including) 8.5.5.5 (including)

Potential Mitigations

  • Make fields transient to protect them from deserialization.
  • An attempt to serialize and then deserialize a class containing transient fields will result in NULLs where the transient data should be. This is an excellent way to prevent time, environment-based, or sensitive variables from being carried over and used improperly.

References