Deserialization of Untrusted Data in Infinispan - CVE-2018-1131

 

Deserialization of Untrusted Data in Infinispan - CVE-2018-1131

Published: November 19, 2019


Vulnerability identifier: #VU22828
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 8.5 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-1131
CWE-ID: CWE-502
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 insecure input validation when processing serialized data. A local user can pass specially crafted XML or JSON data to a cache configured to accept certain types of objects and execute arbitrary code on the target system with elevated privileges.


Affected software

Infinispan
Fuse

How to mitigate CVE-2018-1131

Install updates from vendor's website.

Infinispan - update to 9.3.0
Fuse - update to 7.5.0

External References

Related Security Bulletins