Unsafe reflection in Infinispan - CVE-2019-10174

 

Unsafe reflection in Infinispan - CVE-2019-10174

Published: November 19, 2019


Vulnerability identifier: #VU22827
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 4.8 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-10174
CWE-ID: CWE-470
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

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.


Affected software

Infinispan
JBoss A-MQ
Fuse
Red Hat Openshift Application Runtimes
openEuler
Red Hat Single Sign-On
infinispan
infinispan-help

How to mitigate CVE-2019-10174

Install updates from vendor's website.

Infinispan - update to 10.0.0
Fuse - addressed in versions 6.3.15, 7.6.0
Red Hat Single Sign-On - update to 7.3.8
infinispan - update to 8.2.4-13
infinispan-help - update to 8.2.4-13

External References

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