Deserialization of Untrusted Data The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package org.apache.xmlrpc:xmlrpc (opens in a new tab)
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- published13 Jul 2016
- disclosed13 Jul 2016
- credit0ang3el
Introduced: 13 Jul 2016
CVE-2016-5003 (opens in a new tab)Overview
By default ws-xmlrpc supports java.io.Serializable data types through <ex:serializable> element. An attacker can leverage this to call a method and pass a serialized Java object in that element. ws-xmlrpc will deserialize the malicious object without validation.
References
- https://0ang3el.blogspot.co.il/2016/07/beware-of-ws-xmlrpc-library-in-your.html
- https://github.com/evolvedbinary/apache-xmlrpc/commit/501857105b180da337153c0c6700ffcf84c7188f
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q3/48
- https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/webservices/archive/xmlrpc/trunk/common/src/main/java/org/apache/xmlrpc/parser/SerializableParser.java