A vulnerability has been found in Apache Archiva up to 2.2.3 and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects some unknown functionality of the component Artifact Upload. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a input validation vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-20. The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

In Apache Archiva 2.0.0 - 2.2.3, it is possible to write files to the archiva server at arbitrary locations by using the artifact upload mechanism. Existing files can be overwritten, if the archiva run user has appropriate permission on the filesystem for the target file.

The bug was discovered 04/30/2019. The weakness was presented 04/30/2019 as not defined mailinglist post (Bugtraq). The advisory is shared for download at seclists.org. This vulnerability was named CVE-2019-0214 since 11/14/2018. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. A single authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $5k-$25k (estimation calculated on 09/11/2023).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

See VDB-134247 for similar entry.

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• Archiva

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• 2.2.0
• 2.2.1
• 2.2.2
• 2.2.3

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• open-source

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