Deserialization of Untrusted Data Affecting org.apache.activemq:activemq-client package, versions [,5.15.16) [5.16.0,5.16.7) [5.17.0,5.17.6) [5.18.0,5.18.3)
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- published 31 Oct 2023
- disclosed 27 Oct 2023
- credit nmarcoccio
Introduced: 27 Oct 2023
CVE-2023-46604 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade org.apache.activemq:activemq-client to version 5.15.16, 5.16.7, 5.17.6, 5.18.3 or higher.
Overview
org.apache.activemq:activemq-client is a high performance Apache 2.0 licensed Message Broker and JMS 1.1 implementation.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Deserialization of Untrusted Data via the OpenWire protocol. An attacker with network access to a broker or client can run arbitrary shell commands by manipulating serialized class types, causing the affected broker or client to instantiate any class on the classpath.
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.