Deserialization of Untrusted Data Affecting batik package, versions <1.7.ubuntu-8ubuntu2.14.04.3


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
18.93% (98th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-BATIK-275267
  • published24 May 2018
  • disclosed24 May 2018

Introduced: 24 May 2018

CVE-2018-8013  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-502  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:14.04 batik to version 1.7.ubuntu-8ubuntu2.14.04.3 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream batik package and not the batik package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:14.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

In Apache Batik 1.x before 1.10, when deserializing subclass of AbstractDocument, the class takes a string from the inputStream as the class name which then use it to call the no-arg constructor of the class. Fix was to check the class type before calling newInstance in deserialization.

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