CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-4000

Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Published: Jul 06, 2017 | Modified: Apr 20, 2025
CVSS 3.x
9.8
CRITICAL
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
8.1 IMPORTANT
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

Jython before 2.7.1rc1 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted serialized PyFunction object.

Weakness

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

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Jython Jython_project 2.7.0 (including) 2.7.0 (including)
Jython Ubuntu devel *
Jython Ubuntu esm-apps/xenial *
Jython Ubuntu trusty *
Jython Ubuntu upstream *
Jython Ubuntu xenial *
Jython Ubuntu yakkety *
Jython Ubuntu zesty *

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