CVE-2021-35218

Deserialization of Untrusted Data in the Web Console Chart Endpoint can lead to remote code execution. An unauthorized attacker who has network access to the Orion Patch Manager Web Console could potentially exploit this and compromise the server

Weakness

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

Affected Software

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.

Related Attack Patterns

• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/586.html

References

• https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/patchman/content/release_notes/patchman_2020-2-6_release_notes.htm
• https://www.solarwinds.com/trust-center/security-advisories/cve-2021-35218
• https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-21-1248/
• https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/patchman/content/release_notes/patchman_2020-2-6_release_notes.htm
• https://www.solarwinds.com/trust-center/security-advisories/cve-2021-35218
• https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-21-1248/