ALAS2-2023-2080

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2019-17570  

An untrusted deserialization was found in the org.apache.xmlrpc.parser.XmlRpcResponseParser:addResult method of Apache XML-RPC (aka ws-xmlrpc) library. A malicious XML-RPC server could target a XML-RPC client causing it to execute arbitrary code. Apache XML-RPC is no longer maintained and this issue will not be fixed. (CVE-2019-17570)

ALAS2-2023-2080


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-2080
Advisory Release Date: 2023-06-05 16:39 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-06-07 22:37 Pacific
Severity: Important

Issue Overview:

An untrusted deserialization was found in the org.apache.xmlrpc.parser.XmlRpcResponseParser:addResult method of Apache XML-RPC (aka ws-xmlrpc) library. A malicious XML-RPC server could target a XML-RPC client causing it to execute arbitrary code. Apache XML-RPC is no longer maintained and this issue will not be fixed. (CVE-2019-17570)


Affected Packages:

xmlrpc


Issue Correction:
Run yum update xmlrpc to update your system.

New Packages:
noarch:
    xmlrpc-javadoc-3.1.3-9.amzn2.0.1.noarch
    xmlrpc-common-3.1.3-9.amzn2.0.1.noarch
    xmlrpc-client-3.1.3-9.amzn2.0.1.noarch
    xmlrpc-server-3.1.3-9.amzn2.0.1.noarch

src:
    xmlrpc-3.1.3-9.amzn2.0.1.src