Deserialization of Untrusted Data in Resteasy - CVE-2018-1051

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Deserialization of Untrusted Data in Resteasy - CVE-2018-1051

Published: January 25, 2018 / Updated: August 8, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU37584
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-1051
CWE-ID: CWE-502
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: resteasy
Affected software:
Resteasy

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.

It was found that the fix for CVE-2016-9606 in versions 3.0.22 and 3.1.2 was incomplete and Yaml unmarshalling in Resteasy is still possible via `Yaml.load()` in YamlProvider.


How to mitigate CVE-2018-1051

Install update from vendor's website.

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