apache/commons-collections · Security
Deserialization of Untrusted Data in Apache commons collections
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-fjq5-5j5f-mvxh
- CVE ID
- CVE-2015-7501
- Severity
- critical
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 9.8 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 9.8 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
It was found that the Apache commons-collections library permitted code execution when deserializing objects involving a specially constructed chain of classes. A remote attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the application using the commons-collections library.
CWEs
- CWE-502 · Deserialization of Untrusted Data
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-7501 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/2059393 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/solutions/2045023 ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1279330 ↗
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1773.html ↗
- https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-collections/release_4_1.html ↗
- https://foxglovesecurity.com/2015/11/06/what-do-weblogic-websphere-jboss-jenkins-opennms-and-your-application-have-in-common-this-vulnerability/ ↗
- https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COLLECTIONS-580. ↗
- https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.05534.pdf ↗
- https://github.com/jensdietrich/xshady-release/tree/main/CVE-2015-7501 ↗
- https://sourceforge.net/p/collections/code/HEAD/tree/ ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fjq5-5j5f-mvxh ↗