Payara Server up to 4.1.2.191/5.20.0/5.2020.1 ORB Listener code injection

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Payara Server up to 4.1.2.191/5.20.0/5.2020.1. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component ORB Listener. The manipulation leads to code injection. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2023-28462. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability was found in Payara Server up to 4.1.2.191/5.20.0/5.2020.1 and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown functionality of the component ORB Listener. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a code injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-94. The product constructs all or part of a code segment using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the syntax or behavior of the intended code segment. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

A JNDI rebind operation in the default ORB listener in Payara Server 4.1.2.191 (Enterprise), 5.20.0 and newer (Enterprise), and 5.2020.1 and newer (Community), when Java 1.8u181 and earlier is used, allows remote attackers to load malicious code on the server once a JNDI directory scan is performed.

The weakness was published 03/31/2023. The advisory is shared at blog.payara.fish. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2023-28462 since 03/15/2023. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1059 for this issue.

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

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2023-1140). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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• Payara

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• Server

Version

• 4.1.2.191
• 5.0
• 5.1
• 5.2
• 5.3
• 5.4
• 5.5
• 5.6
• 5.7
• 5.8
• 5.9
• 5.10
• 5.11
• 5.12
• 5.13
• 5.14
• 5.15
• 5.16
• 5.17
• 5.18
• 5.19
• 5.20.0
• 5.2020.0
• 5.2020.1

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