VDB-131384 · CVE-2019-0187 · BID 107219

JMeter up to 5.0 Deserialization deserialization

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability categorized as critical has been discovered in JMeter up to 5.0. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Deserialization. Such manipulation leads to deserialization. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2019-0187. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in JMeter up to 5.0. Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality of the component Deserialization. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a deserialization vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-502. The product deserializes untrusted data without sufficiently verifying that the resulting data will be valid. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Unauthenticated RCE is possible when JMeter is used in distributed mode (-r or -R command line options). Attacker can establish a RMI connection to a jmeter-server using RemoteJMeterEngine and proceed with an attack using untrusted data deserialization. This only affect tests running in Distributed mode. Note that versions before 4.0 are not able to encrypt traffic between the nodes, nor authenticate the participating nodes so upgrade to JMeter 5.1 is also advised.

The bug was discovered 03/02/2019. The weakness was shared 03/06/2019 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at mail-archives.apache.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2019-0187 since 11/14/2018. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 4 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

Upgrading to version 5.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Productinfo

Name

JMeter

Version

CPE 2.3info

CPE 2.2info

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CVSSv3info

VulDB Meta Base Score: 8.5
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 8.4

VulDB Base Score: 7.3
VulDB Temp Score: 7.0
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NVD Base Score: 9.8
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Deserialization
CWE: CWE-502 / CWE-20
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Threat Intelligenceinfo

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: JMeter 5.1

Timelineinfo

11/14/2018 🔍
03/02/2019 +108 days 🔍
03/06/2019 +4 days 🔍
03/06/2019 +0 days 🔍
07/26/2023 +1603 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: mail-archives.apache.org
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2019-0187 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2019-0187
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-131384
SecurityFocus: 107219

Entryinfo

Created: 03/06/2019 21:27
Updated: 07/26/2023 19:26
Changes: 03/06/2019 21:27 (56), 05/14/2020 09:38 (1), 07/26/2023 19:26 (4)
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