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Polymorphic Typing in FasterXML jackson-databind

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published Oct 28, 2019 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Mar 15, 2024

Package

maven com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind (Maven)

Affected versions

>= 2.9.0, < 2.9.10.1
>= 2.0.0, < 2.6.7.3
>= 2.7.0, < 2.8.11.5

Patched versions

2.9.10.1
2.6.7.3
2.8.11.5

Description

A Polymorphic Typing issue was discovered in FasterXML jackson-databind 2.0.0 through 2.9.10. When Default Typing is enabled (either globally or for a specific property) for an externally exposed JSON endpoint and the service has the commons-dbcp (1.4) jar in the classpath, and an attacker can find an RMI service endpoint to access, it is possible to make the service execute a malicious payload. This issue exists because of org.apache.commons.dbcp.datasources.SharedPoolDataSource and org.apache.commons.dbcp.datasources.PerUserPoolDataSource mishandling.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Oct 1, 2019
Reviewed Oct 28, 2019
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Oct 28, 2019
Last updated Mar 15, 2024

Severity

Critical

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS score

0.548%
(78th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2019-16942

GHSA ID

GHSA-mx7p-6679-8g3q

Source code

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