Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an Expression Language Statement in Jena - CVE-2023-32200

 

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an Expression Language Statement in Jena - CVE-2023-32200

Published: December 14, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU84414
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2023-32200
CWE-ID: CWE-917
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote user to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient restrictions of called script functions in Apache Jena. A remote user can execute javascript code via a SPARQL query on the target system.


Affected software

Jena
IBM Integration Bus
IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog in Cloud Pak for Data

How to mitigate CVE-2023-32200

Install updates from vendor's website.

Jena - update to 4.9.0
IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog in Cloud Pak for Data - addressed in versions 4.8.9, 5.1.3

External References

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