Deserialization of Untrusted Data in clojure - CVE-2017-20189
Published: April 22, 2024
Vulnerability identifier: #VU88862
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-2017-20189
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 classes can be used to construct a serialized object that executes arbitrary code upon deserialization. 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
clojure
Cognos Analytics Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data
Fedora
clojure
Cognos Analytics Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data
Fedora
clojure
How to mitigate CVE-2017-20189
Install updates from vendor's website.
clojure - update to 1.9.0
clojure - update to 1.8.0-2.el7
clojure - update to 1.8.0-2.el7