CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-5003

Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Published: Oct 27, 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
7.5 IMPORTANT
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Ubuntu

The Apache XML-RPC (aka ws-xmlrpc) library 3.1.3, as used in Apache Archiva, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted serialized Java object in an ex:serializable element.

Weakness

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

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Ws-xmlrpc Apache 3.1.3 (including) 3.1.3 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RedHat xmlrpc3-0:3.0-4.17.el6_9 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat xmlrpc-1:3.1.3-9.el7_5 *
Red Hat Fuse 7.2 RedHat camel *
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RedHat rh-java-common-xmlrpc-1:3.1.3-8.16.el6 *
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 EUS RedHat rh-java-common-xmlrpc-1:3.1.3-8.16.el6 *
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat rh-java-common-xmlrpc-1:3.1.3-8.16.el7 *
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 EUS RedHat rh-java-common-xmlrpc-1:3.1.3-8.16.el7 *
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 EUS RedHat rh-java-common-xmlrpc-1:3.1.3-8.16.el7 *
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 EUS RedHat rh-java-common-xmlrpc-1:3.1.3-8.16.el7 *
Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat xmlrpc-1:3.1.3-9.el7_5 *

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