Deserialization of Untrusted Data Affecting com.aerospike:aerospike-client package, versions [,4.5.0) [5.0.0,5.2.0) [6.0.0,6.2.0)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-COMAEROSPIKE-5819551
- published 4 Aug 2023
- disclosed 3 Aug 2023
- credit Tony Torralba, Joseph Farebrother
Introduced: 3 Aug 2023
CVE-2023-36480 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade com.aerospike:aerospike-client to version 4.5.0, 5.2.0, 6.2.0 or higher.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Deserialization of Untrusted Data. Attackers that manage to trick clients into communicating with a malicious server can include specially crafted objects in its responses that, once deserialized by the client, force it to execute arbitrary code. This can be abused to take control of the machine the client is running on.
Note:
To exploit this vulnerability, a malicious Aerospike server is needed.
Details
Serialization is a process of converting an object into a sequence of bytes which can be persisted to a disk or database or can be sent through streams. The reverse process of creating object from sequence of bytes is called deserialization. Serialization is commonly used for communication (sharing objects between multiple hosts) and persistence (store the object state in a file or a database). It is an integral part of popular protocols like Remote Method Invocation (RMI), Java Management Extension (JMX), Java Messaging System (JMS), Action Message Format (AMF), Java Server Faces (JSF) ViewState, etc.
Deserialization of untrusted data (CWE-502) is when the application deserializes untrusted data without sufficiently verifying that the resulting data will be valid, thus allowing the attacker to control the state or the flow of the execution.