CVE-2015-3253

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2015-3253  

A flaw was discovered in the way applications using Groovy used the standard Java serialization mechanism. A remote attacker could use a specially crafted serialized object that would execute code directly when deserialized. All applications which rely on serialization and do not isolate the code which deserializes objects are subject to this vulnerability.

A flaw was discovered in the way applications using Groovy used the standard Java serialization mechanism. A remote attacker could use a specially crafted serialized object that would execute code directly when deserialized. All applications which rely on serialization and do not isolate the code which deserializes objects are subject to this vulnerability.

Find out more about CVE-2015-3253 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 6.8
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial

CVSS v3 metrics

CVSS3 Base Score 9.6
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction Required
Scope Changed
Confidentiality High
Integrity Impact High
Availability Impact High

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (rh-maven33-groovy) RHSA-2017:2596 2017-09-05
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (rh-maven33-groovy) RHSA-2017:2596 2017-09-05
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (groovy) RHSA-2017:2486 2017-08-17

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2 jenkins Will not fix
Red Hat JBoss Portal Platform 6 groovy-all Affected
Red Hat JBoss Operations Network 3 groovy-all Affected
Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 groovy-all Affected
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 5 grovy-all Affected
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 4 groovy-all Will not fix
Red Hat JBoss EAP 5 groovy-all Will not fix
Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 groovy-all Affected
Red Hat JBoss BRMS 5 groovy-all Will not fix
Red Hat JBoss BPMS 6 groovy-all Not affected
RHEV Manager 3 jasperreports-server-pro Affected

Mitigation

Apply the following patch on the MethodClosure class (src/main/org/codehaus/groovy/runtime/MethodClosure.java):

    public class MethodClosure extends Closure {
        + private Object readResolve() {
        + throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
        +
        }

Alternatively, you should make sure to use a custom security policy file (using the standard Java security manager) or make sure that you do not rely on serialization to communicate remotely.

External References