CVE-2019-10173: Deserialization of Untrusted Data

July 23, 2019 (updated October 9, 2019)

It was found that xstream API introduced a regression for a previous deserialization flaw. If the security framework has not been initialized, it may allow a remote attacker to run arbitrary shell commands when unmarshalling XML or any supported format. e.g. JSON. (regression of CVE-2013-7285)

References

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-10173
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-10173

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