CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-1000047

Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Published: Feb 09, 2018 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
8.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
6.8 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

NASA Kodiak version v1.0 contains a CWE-502 vulnerability in Kodiak librarys data processing function that can result in remote code execution. This attack appear to be exploitable via Victim opens an untrusted file for optimization using Kodiak 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
Kodiak Nasa 1.0 (including) 1.0 (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.

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