Skip to content

QOS.ch Logback vulnerable to Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jun 7, 2021 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 28, 2023

Package

maven ch.qos.logback:logback-classic (Maven)

Affected versions

< 1.2.0

Patched versions

1.2.0
maven ch.qos.logback:logback-core (Maven)
< 1.2.0
1.2.0

Description

QOS.ch Logback before 1.2.0 has a serialization vulnerability affecting the SocketServer and ServerSocketReceiver components. The RemoteStreamAppenderClient class in logback-classic and the SocketNode classes in logback-classic and logback-access allow data to be deserialized over a Java Socket, via an ObjectInputStream, without validating the data beforehand. When data is received from the Socket, to be logged, it is deserialized into Java objects.An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending malicious, serialized Java objects over the connection to the Socket, which may result in execution of arbitrary code when those objects are deserialized. Note that although logback-core is implicated by the Logback project here, the Sonatype Security Research team discovered that the vulnerability is actually present in the logback-classic and logback-access components. Versions prior to 1.2.0 are vulnerable, as stated in the advisory.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Mar 13, 2017
Reviewed Jun 4, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jun 7, 2021
Last updated Jan 28, 2023

Severity

Critical

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS score

1.718%
(88th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2017-5929

GHSA ID

GHSA-vmfg-rjjm-rjrj

Source code

Loading Checking history
See something to contribute? Suggest improvements for this vulnerability.