CVE-2013-2185

Summary

CVECVE-2013-2185
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2014-01-19 18:02:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 02:14:00 UTC
Description** DISPUTED ** The readObject method in the DiskFileItem class in Apache Tomcat and JBoss Web, as used in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.1.0 and Red Hat JBoss Portal 6.0.0, allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a NULL byte in a file name in a serialized instance, a similar issue to CVE-2013-2186. NOTE: this issue is reportedly disputed by the Apache Tomcat team, although Red Hat considers it a vulnerability. The dispute appears to regard whether it is the responsibility of applications to avoid providing untrusted data to be deserialized, or whether this class should inherently protect against this issue.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-20

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Apache Tomcat All All All All
Application Redhat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform 6.1.0 All All All
Application Redhat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform 6.1.0 All All All
Application Redhat Jboss Enterprise Portal Platform 6.0.0 All All All
Application Redhat Jboss Enterprise Portal Platform 6.0.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
oss-security - Re: Duplicate Request: CVE-2013-4444 as a duplicate of CVE-2013-2185 MLIST openwall.com
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT rhn.redhat.com Vendor Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT rhn.redhat.com Vendor Advisory
RHSA-2013:1265 REDHAT rhn.redhat.com Vendor Advisory
oss-security - Re: CVE-2013-2185 / Tomcat MLIST www.openwall.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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