Apache Flume up to 1.9.0 JMS Source injection

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A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Apache Flume up to 1.9.0. The affected element is an unknown function of the component JMS Source Handler. The manipulation leads to injection. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2022-25167. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in Apache Flume up to 1.9.0. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown code of the component JMS Source Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to 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. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Apache Flume versions 1.4.0 through 1.9.0 are vulnerable to a remote code execution (RCE) attack when a configuration uses a JMS Source with a JNDI LDAP data source URI when an attacker has control of the target LDAP server. This issue is fixed by limiting JNDI to allow only the use of the java protocol or no protocol.

The weakness was shared 06/14/2022. It is possible to read the advisory at issues.apache.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2022-25167 since 02/15/2022. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 06/14/2022). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1055 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

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

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Vendor

• Apache

Name

• Flume

Version

• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.2
• 1.3
• 1.4
• 1.5
• 1.6
• 1.7
• 1.8
• 1.9.0

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• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.apache.org/

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