Deserialization of Untrusted Data in Eclipse Memory Analyzer - CVE-2019-17635
Published: January 20, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU24390
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 8.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-17635
CWE-ID: CWE-502
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
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 if an index file of a parsed heap dump is replaced by a malicious version and the heap dump is reopened in Memory Analyzer. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
Affected software
Eclipse Memory Analyzer
How to mitigate CVE-2019-17635
Install updates from vendor's website.
Eclipse Memory Analyzer - update to 1.9.2