CVE-2022-37023

Apache Geode versions prior to 1.15.0 are vulnerable to a deserialization of untrusted data flaw when using REST API on Java 8 or Java 11. Any user wishing to protect against deserialization attacks involving REST APIs should upgrade to Apache Geode 1.15 and follow the documentation for details on enabling validate-serializable-objects=true and specifying any user classes that may be serialized/deserialized with serializable-object-filter. Enabling validate-serializable-objects may impact performance.

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://lists.apache.org/thread/6js89pbqrp52zlpwgry5fsdn76gxbbfj
• https://lists.apache.org/thread/6js89pbqrp52zlpwgry5fsdn76gxbbfj