Unsafe reflection in Infinispan - CVE-2019-10174

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Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU22827

Unsafe reflection in Infinispan - CVE-2019-10174

Published: November 19, 2019


Vulnerability identifier: #VU22827
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-10174
CWE-ID: CWE-470
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Red Hat Inc.
Affected software:
Infinispan

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to Infinispan uses an insecure invokeAccessibly method from ReflectionUtil class that allows to invoke other private methods. A local user can abuse this functionality to execute arbitrary code on the system with privileges of Infinispan process.


How to mitigate CVE-2019-10174

Install updates from vendor's website.

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