IBM InfoSphere Information Server 11.7 is affected by a remote code execution vulnerability due to insecure deserialization in an RMI service. IBM X-Force ID: 255285.
Weakness
The product deserializes untrusted data without sufficiently ensuring that the resulting data will be valid.
Affected Software
| Name |
Vendor |
Start Version |
End Version |
| Infosphere_information_server |
Ibm |
11.7 (including) |
11.7 (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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