Deserialization of Untrusted Data in eFront - CVE-2019-5069

 

Deserialization of Untrusted Data in eFront - CVE-2019-5069

Published: September 4, 2019


Vulnerability identifier: #VU20841
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-5069
CWE-ID: CWE-502
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Epignosis LLC
Affected software:
eFront

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to insecure input validation when processing serialized data. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted web request to the application, cause unsafe deserialization and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.

List of vulnerable URLs and parameters:

http://[IP]/Banners/add/1 [name parameter]
http://[IP]/Glossary/add/1 [term parameter]
http://[IP]/RandomDataPopulator/add/1 [name parameter]
http://[IP]/audiences/add/1 [name parameter]
http://[IP]/branches/add/1 [name parameter]
http://[IP]/categories/add/1 [name parameter]
http://[IP]/certificates/add/1 [name parameter]
http://[IP]/curriculums/add/1 [name parameter]
http://[IP]/discussions/course-id/180/add-topic/1/popup/1 [title parameter]
http://[IP]/jobs/add/1 [name parameter]
http://[IP]/payments/op/price_tracks/add/1 [discount_type parameter]
http://[IP]/reports/op/courses [filter_name parameter]
http://[IP]/skill-tests/add/1/quick-add/1 [name parameter]
http://[IP]/skills/add/1 [name parameter]

How to mitigate CVE-2019-5069

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.

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