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GHSA-v2rg-8cwr-75g8

Deserializer tampering in Apache Dubbo

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Critical CVE-2021-25641

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
Maven org.apache.dubbo:dubbo >= 2.5.0, < 2.7.8 2.7.8
Maven com.alibaba:dubbo >= 2.5.0, < 2.6.9 2.6.9

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

Each Apache Dubbo server will set a serialization id to tell the clients which serialization protocol it is working on. But for Dubbo versions before 2.7.8 or 2.6.9, an attacker can choose which serialization id the Provider will use by tampering with the byte preamble flags, aka, not following the server's instruction. This means that if a weak deserializer such as the Kryo and FST are somehow in code scope (e.g. if Kryo is somehow a part of a dependency), a remote unauthenticated attacker can tell the Provider to use the weak deserializer, and then proceed to exploit it.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.