Advisory Details

July 20th, 2015

Apache Groovy Deserialization of Untrusted Data Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE ID	CVE-2015-3253
CVSS SCORE	7.5, AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
AFFECTED VENDORS	Apache Elastic
AFFECTED PRODUCTS	Groovy Elasticsearch
VULNERABILITY DETAILS	This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Apache Groovy. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the Closure implementation which accepts and deserializes a Java serialized binary stream. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code under the context of the user.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS	Apache has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at: http://groovy-lang.org/security.html Elastic has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at: https://www.elastic.co/community/security
DISCLOSURE TIMELINE	2015-06-30 - Vulnerability reported to vendor 2015-07-20 - Coordinated public release of advisory
CREDIT	cpnrodzc7

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