CVE-2023-38647

Apache Helix: Deserialization vulnerability in Helix workflow and REST

State
Published
Severity
9.8 Critical
Published
Jul 26, 2023
Updated
Oct 2, 2024
Reserved
Jul 21, 2023

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Description

An attacker can use SnakeYAML to deserialize java.net.URLClassLoader and make it load a JAR from a specified URL, and then deserialize javax.script.ScriptEngineManager to load code using that ClassLoader. This unbounded deserialization can likely lead to remote code execution. The code can be run in Helix REST start and Workflow creation.

Affect all the versions lower and include 1.2.0.

Affected products: helix-core, helix-rest

Mitigation: Short term, stop using any YAML based configuration and workflow creation.                   Long term, all Helix version bumping up to 1.3.0

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.19.8 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

  • CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Apache HelixApache Software Foundation
  • 1.2.0 and earlierAffected

References

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