A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Apache Axis up to 1.7.8. This issue affects an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a server-side request forgery vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-918. The web server receives a URL or similar request from an upstream component and retrieves the contents of this URL, but it does not sufficiently ensure that the request is being sent to the expected destination. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

A Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability affected the Apache Axis 1.4 distribution that was last released in 2006. Security and bug commits commits continue in the projects Axis 1.x Subversion repository, legacy users are encouraged to build from source. The successor to Axis 1.x is Axis2, the latest version is 1.7.9 and is not vulnerable to this issue.

The bug was discovered 04/09/2019. The weakness was released 05/01/2019 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at lists.apache.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2019-0227 since 11/14/2018. The attack needs to be done within the local network. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 22 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k.

Upgrading to version 1.7.9 eliminates this vulnerability.

Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at 143650, 143570, 143724 and 148997.

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• Apache

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• Axis

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• 1.7.0
• 1.7.1
• 1.7.2
• 1.7.3
• 1.7.4
• 1.7.5
• 1.7.6
• 1.7.7
• 1.7.8

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• free

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