SB2019111902 - Privilege escalation in Infinispan
Published: November 19, 2019
Security Bulletin ID
SB2019111902
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Local access
Highest impact
Data manipulation
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Unsafe reflection (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-10174)
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to Infinispan uses an insecure invokeAccessibly method from ReflectionUtil class that allows to invoke other private methods. A local user can abuse this functionality to execute arbitrary code on the system with privileges of Infinispan process.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.