CVE-2024-5675

Untrusted data deserialization vulnerability has been found in Mentor - Employee Portal, affecting version 3.83.35. This vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, by injecting a malicious payload into the “ViewState” field.

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://www.incibe.es/en/incibe-cert/notices/aviso/unreliable-data-deserialization-vulnerability-mentor
• https://www.incibe.es/en/incibe-cert/notices/aviso/unreliable-data-deserialization-vulnerability-mentor