CVE-2020-5245

Summary

CVECVE-2020-5245
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-02-24 18:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-05-12 15:00:00 UTC
DescriptionDropwizard-Validation before 1.3.19, and 2.0.2 may allow arbitrary code execution on the host system, with the privileges of the Dropwizard service account, by injecting arbitrary Java Expression Language expressions when using the self-validating feature. The issue has been fixed in dropwizard-validation 1.3.19 and 2.0.2.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-74

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Dropwizard Dropwizard Validation All All All All
Application Dropwizard Dropwizard Validation All All All All
Application Oracle Blockchain Platform All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Escape EL expressions in ViolationCollector by joschi · Pull Request #3157 · dropwizard/dropwizard · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - April 2022 MISC www.oracle.com
9 Expression Language (Release 7) MISC docs.oracle.com Third Party Advisory
Bean Validation specification MISC beanvalidation.org Third Party Advisory
Escape EL expressions in ViolationCollector by joschi · Pull Request #3160 · dropwizard/dropwizard · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
Hibernate Validator 6.1.4.Final - Jakarta Bean Validation Reference Implementation: Reference Guide MISC docs.jboss.org Third Party Advisory
Escape EL expressions in ViolationCollector (#3157) · dropwizard/dropwizard@d87d1e4 · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in dropwizard-validation <2.0.2 · Advisory · dropwizard/dropwizard · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 982422 Java (maven) Security Update for io.dropwizard:dropwizard-validation (GHSA-3mcp-9wr4-cjqf)
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