CVE-2023-41331

SOFARPC is a Java RPC framework. Versions prior to 5.11.0 are vulnerable to remote command execution. Through a carefully crafted payload, an attacker can achieve JNDI injection or system command execution. In the default configuration of the SOFARPC framework, a blacklist is used to filter out dangerous classes encountered during the deserialization process. However, the blacklist is not comprehensive, and an actor can exploit certain native JDK classes and common third-party packages to construct gadget chains capable of achieving JNDI injection or system command execution attacks. Version 5.11.0 contains a fix for this issue. As a workaround, users can add -Drpc_serialize_blacklist_override=javax.sound.sampled.AudioFileFormat to the blacklist.

Weakness

The product constructs all or part of an expression language (EL) statement in a framework such as a Java Server Page (JSP) using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended EL statement before it is executed.

Affected Software

Potential Mitigations

• If user-controlled data must be added to an expression interpreter, one or more of the following should be performed:

References

• https://github.com/sofastack/sofa-rpc/releases/tag/v5.11.0
• https://github.com/sofastack/sofa-rpc/security/advisories/GHSA-chv2-7hxj-2j86