CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-5878

Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Published: Jun 08, 2017 | Modified: Apr 20, 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
7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

The AMF unmarshallers in Red5 Media Server before 1.0.8 do not restrict the classes for which it performs deserialization, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted serialized Java data.

Weakness

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

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Media_server Red5 1.0.2 (including) 1.0.2 (including)
Media_server Red5 1.0.2-milestone1 (including) 1.0.2-milestone1 (including)
Media_server Red5 1.0.3 (including) 1.0.3 (including)
Media_server Red5 1.0.4 (including) 1.0.4 (including)
Media_server Red5 1.0.5 (including) 1.0.5 (including)
Media_server Red5 1.0.6 (including) 1.0.6 (including)
Media_server Red5 1.0.7 (including) 1.0.7 (including)
Media_server Red5 1.0.7-milestone1 (including) 1.0.7-milestone1 (including)
Media_server Red5 1.0.7-milestone2 (including) 1.0.7-milestone2 (including)
Media_server Red5 1.0.7-milestone3 (including) 1.0.7-milestone3 (including)
Media_server Red5 1.0.7-milestone4 (including) 1.0.7-milestone4 (including)
Media_server Red5 1.0.7-milestone5 (including) 1.0.7-milestone5 (including)
Media_server Red5 1.0.7-milestone6 (including) 1.0.7-milestone6 (including)
Media_server Red5 1.0.7-milestone7 (including) 1.0.7-milestone7 (including)
Media_server Red5 1.0.8-milestone1 (including) 1.0.8-milestone1 (including)
Media_server Red5 1.0.8-milestone10 (including) 1.0.8-milestone10 (including)
Media_server Red5 1.0.8-milestone11 (including) 1.0.8-milestone11 (including)
Media_server Red5 1.0.8-milestone12 (including) 1.0.8-milestone12 (including)
Media_server Red5 1.0.8-milestone13 (including) 1.0.8-milestone13 (including)
Media_server Red5 1.0.8-milestone2 (including) 1.0.8-milestone2 (including)
Media_server Red5 1.0.8-milestone3 (including) 1.0.8-milestone3 (including)
Media_server Red5 1.0.8-milestone4 (including) 1.0.8-milestone4 (including)
Media_server Red5 1.0.8-milestone5 (including) 1.0.8-milestone5 (including)
Media_server Red5 1.0.8-milestone6 (including) 1.0.8-milestone6 (including)
Media_server Red5 1.0.8-milestone7 (including) 1.0.8-milestone7 (including)
Media_server Red5 1.0.8-milestone8 (including) 1.0.8-milestone8 (including)
Media_server Red5 1.0.8-milestone9 (including) 1.0.8-milestone9 (including)
Red5 Ubuntu artful *
Red5 Ubuntu esm-apps/xenial *
Red5 Ubuntu trusty *
Red5 Ubuntu upstream *
Red5 Ubuntu xenial *
Red5 Ubuntu yakkety *
Red5 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