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CVE-2019-17570

Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Published: Jan 23, 2020 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
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
9.8 IMPORTANT
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-17570
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/502.html

An untrusted deserialization was found in the org.apache.xmlrpc.parser.XmlRpcResponseParser:addResult method of Apache XML-RPC (aka ws-xmlrpc) library. A malicious XML-RPC server could target a XML-RPC client causing it to execute arbitrary code. Apache XML-RPC is no longer maintained and this issue will not be fixed.

Weakness

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

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Xml-rpc Apache 3.1 (including) 3.1 (including)
Xml-rpc Apache 3.1.1 (including) 3.1.1 (including)
Xml-rpc Apache 3.1.2 (including) 3.1.2 (including)
Xml-rpc Apache 3.1.3 (including) 3.1.3 (including)
Red Hat Fuse 7.6.0 RedHat camel-xmlrpc *
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RedHat rh-java-common-xmlrpc-1:3.1.3-8.17.el6 *
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat rh-java-common-xmlrpc-1:3.1.3-8.17.el7 *
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 EUS RedHat rh-java-common-xmlrpc-1:3.1.3-8.17.el7 *
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 EUS RedHat rh-java-common-xmlrpc-1:3.1.3-8.17.el7 *
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 EUS RedHat rh-java-common-xmlrpc-1:3.1.3-8.17.el7 *
Libxmlrpc3-java Ubuntu bionic *
Libxmlrpc3-java Ubuntu disco *
Libxmlrpc3-java Ubuntu eoan *
Libxmlrpc3-java Ubuntu esm-apps/bionic *
Libxmlrpc3-java Ubuntu esm-apps/xenial *
Libxmlrpc3-java Ubuntu trusty *
Libxmlrpc3-java Ubuntu xenial *

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

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