Dropwizard-Validation up to 1.3.20/2.0.2 Template injection

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A vulnerability has been found in Dropwizard-Validation up to 1.3.20/2.0.2 and classified as critical. Impacted is an unknown function of the component Template Handler. This manipulation causes injection. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2020-11002. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. The affected component should be upgraded.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Dropwizard-Validation up to 1.3.20/2.0.2. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown part of the component Template Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a injection vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-74. The product constructs all or part of a command, data structure, or record using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify how it is parsed or interpreted when it is sent to a downstream component. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

dropwizard-validation before versions 2.0.3 and 1.3.21 has a remote code execution vulnerability. A server-side template injection was identified in the self-validating feature enabling attackers to inject arbitrary Java EL expressions, leading to Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability. If you are using a self-validating bean an upgrade to Dropwizard 1.3.21/2.0.3 or later is strongly recommended. The changes introduced in Dropwizard 1.3.19 and 2.0.2 for CVE-2020-5245 unfortunately did not fix the underlying issue completely. The issue has been fixed in dropwizard-validation 1.3.21 and 2.0.3 or later. We strongly recommend upgrading to one of these versions.

The weakness was disclosed 04/10/2020 (GitHub Repository). The advisory is shared at github.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2020-11002 since 03/30/2020. The exploitation appears to be difficult. The attack can be launched remotely. A single authentication is necessary for exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1055 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 1.3.21 or 2.0.3 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Name

• Dropwizard-Validation

Version

• 1.3.0
• 1.3.1
• 1.3.2
• 1.3.3
• 1.3.4
• 1.3.5
• 1.3.6
• 1.3.7
• 1.3.8
• 1.3.9
• 1.3.10
• 1.3.11
• 1.3.12
• 1.3.13
• 1.3.14
• 1.3.15
• 1.3.16
• 1.3.17
• 1.3.18
• 1.3.19
• 1.3.20
• 2.0.0
• 2.0.1
• 2.0.2

License

• open-source

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