Deserialization of Untrusted Data in Logback - CVE-2017-5929

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Deserialization of Untrusted Data in Logback - CVE-2017-5929

Published: March 27, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU26418
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 9.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-5929
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 within SocketServer and ServerSocketReceiver components in Logback. 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

Logback
Fuse
IBM Spectrum Scale
Contrail Networking

How to mitigate CVE-2017-5929

Install updates from vendor's website.

Logback - update to 1.2.0
Fuse - update to 7.6.0
IBM Spectrum Scale - update to 5.1.6.1
Contrail Networking - update to 2011.L5

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