Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting org.alluxio:alluxio-core package, versions [,2.9.4)[300,311)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

CVSS assessment by Snyk's Security Team. Learn more

Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
1.08% (63rd percentile)

Do your applications use this vulnerable package?

In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes.

Test your applications

Snyk Learn

Learn about Arbitrary Code Execution vulnerabilities in an interactive lesson.

Start learning
  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGALLUXIO-5843544
  • published16 Aug 2023
  • disclosed15 Aug 2023
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 15 Aug 2023

CVE-2023-38889  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade org.alluxio:alluxio-core to version 2.9.4, 311 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution via a crafted script to the username parameter of lluxio.util.CommonUtils.getUnixGroups(java.lang.String).

PoC

CommonUtils.getUnixGroups("| echo 123 ")

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1