Deserialization of Untrusted Data Affecting groovy2 package, versions <2.2.2+dfsg-3+deb8u2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
17.24% (97th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-GROOVY2-272906
  • published18 Jan 2018
  • disclosed18 Jan 2018

Introduced: 18 Jan 2018

CVE-2016-6814  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-502  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 groovy2 to version 2.2.2+dfsg-3+deb8u2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream groovy2 package and not the groovy2 package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

When an application with unsupported Codehaus versions of Groovy from 1.7.0 to 2.4.3, Apache Groovy 2.4.4 to 2.4.7 on classpath uses standard Java serialization mechanisms, e.g. to communicate between servers or to store local data, it was possible for an attacker to bake a special serialized object that will execute code directly when deserialized. All applications which rely on serialization and do not isolate the code which deserializes objects were subject to this vulnerability.