Apache Groovy Deserialization of Untrusted Data Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

July 20th, 2015
ZDI-15-365 ZDI-CAN-2947

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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