CVE-2024-22399

Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in Apache Seata. 

When developers disable authentication on the Seata-Server and do not use the Seata client SDK dependencies, they may construct uncontrolled serialized malicious requests by directly sending bytecode based on the Seata private protocol.

This issue affects Apache Seata: 2.0.0, from 1.0.0 through 1.8.0.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.1.0/1.8.1, which fixes the issue.

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/91nzzlxyj4nmks85gbzwkkjtbmnmlkc4
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/09/11/2