Deserialization of Untrusted Data Affecting org.apache.activemq:apache-activemq package, versions [,5.16.6)[5.17.0,5.17.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.58% (79th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHEACTIVEMQ-6092282
  • published29 Nov 2023
  • disclosed28 Nov 2023
  • creditwangxin@threatbook.cn, wangzhendong@threatbook.cn, honglonglong@threatbook.cn

Introduced: 28 Nov 2023

CVE-2022-41678  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-502  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade org.apache.activemq:apache-activemq to version 5.16.6, 5.17.4 or higher.

Overview

org.apache.activemq:apache-activemq is a Message Broker and Client implementations.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Deserialization of Untrusted Data via the Jolokia component. An attacker can potentially trigger arbitrary code execution by exploiting this vulnerability.

Note:

This is only exploitable if the user is authenticated on Jolokia.

Workaround

This vulnerability can be mitigated by restricting the actions authorized on Jolokia, or disabling Jolokia. A more restrictive Jolokia configuration has been defined in default ActiveMQ distribution.

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.

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