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CVE-2020-4589

Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Published: Aug 13, 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
10 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-4589
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/502.html

IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0, 8.0, 8.5, and 9.0 could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system with a specially-crafted sequence of serialized objects from untrusted sources. IBM X-Force ID: 184585.

Weakness

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

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Websphere_application_server Ibm 7.0.0.0 (including) 7.0.0.45 (including)
Websphere_application_server Ibm 8.0.0.0 (including) 8.0.0.15 (including)
Websphere_application_server Ibm 8.5.0.0 (including) 8.5.5.17 (including)
Websphere_application_server Ibm 9.0.0.0 (including) 9.0.5.4 (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.

References

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