Gentoo update for Commons-BeanUtils



Risk Low
Patch available YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
CVE-ID CVE-2019-10086
CWE-ID CWE-693
Exploitation vector Network
Public exploit N/A
Vulnerable software
 Gentoo Linux
Operating systems & Components / Operating system

dev-java/commons-beanutils
Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component

Vendor Gentoo

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one low risk vulnerability.

1) Protection mechanism failure

EUVDB-ID: #VU20844

Risk: Low

CVSSv4.0: 1.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear]

CVE-ID: CVE-2019-10086

CWE-ID: CWE-693 - Protection Mechanism Failure

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass certain security restrictions.

The vulnerability exist due to Beanutils is not using by default the a special BeanIntrospector class in PropertyUtilsBean that was supposed to suppress the ability for an attacker to access the classloader via the class property available on all Java objects. A remote attacker can abuse such application behavior against applications that were developed to rely on this security feature.

Mitigation

Update the affected packages.
dev-java/commons-beanutils to version: 1.9.4

Vulnerable software versions

Gentoo Linux: All versions

dev-java/commons-beanutils: before 1.9.4

CPE2.3 External links

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202405-21


Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.



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