SB2017041406 - SSRF in jackson-dataformat-xml

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.

1) Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-7051)

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform SSRF attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input within XmlMapper when processing DTD data. A remote non-authenticated attacker can pass specially crafted XML data and trick the application to initiate requests to arbitrary systems.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker gain access to sensitive data, located in the local network or send malicious requests to other servers from the vulnerable system.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1378673
• https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-dataformat-xml/issues/211