SB2019110420 - Fedora 30 update for apache-commons-beanutils
Published: November 4, 2019 Updated: April 25, 2025
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.
1) Protection mechanism failure (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-10086)
CWE-ID: CWE-693 - Protection Mechanism Failure
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass certain security restrictions.
The vulnerability exist due to Beanutils is not using by default the a special BeanIntrospector class in PropertyUtilsBean that was supposed to suppress the ability for an attacker to access the classloader via the class property available on all Java objects. A remote attacker can abuse such application behavior against applications that were developed to rely on this security feature.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.