CVE-2015-4852

Published: 18 November 2015

The WLS Security component in Oracle WebLogic Server 10.3.6.0, 12.1.2.0, 12.1.3.0, and 12.2.1.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted serialized Java object in T3 protocol traffic to TCP port 7001, related to oracle_common/modules/com.bea.core.apache.commons.collections.jar. NOTE: the scope of this CVE is limited to the WebLogic Server product.

Notes

according to infoq article and digging through openjdk
source, there is at least an embedded copy of xalan xslt in openjdk
which is also vulnerable, though it may be just an example of a
target class to overwrite via desrialization.
same as above for libxalan2-java

This CVE was originally assigned to Oracle WebLogic, and then
was subsequently used by IBM Websphere. It has been proposed to
use it for commons-collections. See:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/15/1
Red Hat has assigned CVE-2015-7501 to the issue in
JBoss Middleware Suite
as of 2018-09-19, no indication that this is being fixed in
openjdk, or if it is an issue at all. Marking as ignored.

Status

Severity score breakdown

References

• https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COLLECTIONS-580
• http://foxglovesecurity.com/2015/11/06/what-do-weblogic-websphere-jboss-jenkins-opennms-and-your-application-have-in-common-this-vulnerability/
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/09/1
• http://www.infoq.com/news/2015/11/commons-exploit
• https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/apache_commons_statement_to_widespread
• https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/576313
• https://access.redhat.com/solutions/2045023
• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-4852
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian

Bugs

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libcommons-collections3-java/+bug/1514985
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1279330