CVE-2020-1953

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Important Important Impact What does this mean?
9 CVSS v3 Base Score

Description

A flaw was found in the Apache Commons Configuration, where it uses a third-party library to process YAML files, which by default, allows the instantiation of classes if the YAML includes special statements. Apache Commons Configuration versions 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6 did not change the default settings of this library. If a YAML file was loaded from an untrusted source, it could load and execute code out of the control of the host application.

Statement

Several packages are unaffected because they do not include support for YAML configurations:

  • apache-commons-configuration as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • apache-commons-configuration as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
  • rh-maven35-apache-commons-configuration as shipped with Red Hat Software Collections
  • commons-configuration as shipped with Red Hat Gluster Storage

Mitigation

There is currently no mitigation available for this vulnerability.

Additional Information

External References

Content from www.cve.org is not included.https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-1953

Content from nvd.nist.gov is not included.https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-1953

Content from github.com is not included.https://github.com/apache/commons-configuration/commit/add7375cf37fd316d4838c6c56b054fc293b4641

Content from lists.apache.org is not included.https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rde2186ad6ac0d6ed8d51af7509244adcf1ce0f9a3b7e1d1dd3b64676@%3Ccommits.camel.apache.org%3E

Affected Packages and Issued Red Hat Security Errata

Products / Services Components State Errata
A-MQ Clients 2 commons-configuration2 Not affected
Red Hat A-MQ Online commons-configuration2 Not affected
Red Hat AMQ commons-configuration2 Fixed RHSA-2020:2751
Red Hat AMQ commons-configuration2 Fixed RHSA-2020:3133
Red Hat BPM Suite 6 commons-configuration Not affected
Red Hat Decision Manager 7 commons-configuration Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 apache-commons-configuration Not affected
Red Hat Fuse 7.7.0 commons-configuration2 Fixed RHSA-2020:3192
Red Hat JBoss BRMS 5 commons-configuration Out of support scope
Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6 commons-configuration Not affected
Unless explicitly stated as not affected, all previous versions of packages in any minor update stream of a product listed here should be assumed vulnerable, although may not have been subject to full analysis.

Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) Score Details

Important note

CVSS scores for open source components depend on vendor-specific factors (e.g. version or build chain). Therefore, Red Hat's score and impact rating can be different from NVD and other vendors. Red Hat remains the authoritative CVE Naming Authorities (CNA) source for its products and services (see Red Hat classifications ).

CVSS v3 Score Breakdown Red Hat NVD
CVSS v3 Base Score 9 10
Attack Vector Network Network
Attack Complexity High Low
Privileges Required None None
User Interaction None None
Scope Changed Changed
Confidentiality Impact High High
Integrity Impact High High
Availability Impact High High

CVSS v3 Vector

Red Hat CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Red Hat CVSS v3 Score Explanation

Red Hat Product Security has scored this as AC:H as the enablement of YAML processing in the software is a necessity for exploit, which is beyond the attacker's control, and as such does not merit AC:L rating. Consequently, we have assigned the flaw an impact of Important.

Frequently Asked Questions

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