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Critical · 9.8 CVE-2023-38647 EUVD-2023-2088GHSA-jhcr-hph9-g7wm

Apache Helix: Deserialization vulnerability in Helix workflow and REST

Published Jul 26, 2023 · Updated Oct 2, 2024 · Assigned by apache

Vendor: Apache Software Foundation Product: Apache Helix Package: org.apache.helix:helix-core Package: org.apache.helix:helix-rest Package: trino Package: trino-config Package: trino-oci-entrypoint Package: trino-plugin-ai-functions Package: trino-plugin-bigquery Package: trino-plugin-blackhole Package: trino-plugin-cassandra Package: trino-plugin-clickhouse Package: trino-plugin-delta-lake Package: trino-plugin-druid Package: trino-plugin-duckdb Package: trino-plugin-elasticsearch Package: trino-plugin-exasol Package: trino-plugin-exchange-filesystem Package: trino-plugin-exchange-hdfs Package: trino-plugin-faker Package: trino-plugin-functions-python Package: trino-plugin-geospatial Package: trino-plugin-google-sheets Package: trino-plugin-hive Package: trino-plugin-http-event-listener Package: trino-plugin-http-server-event-listener Package: trino-plugin-hudi Package: trino-plugin-iceberg Package: trino-plugin-ignite Package: trino-plugin-jmx Package: trino-plugin-kafka Package: trino-plugin-kafka-event-listener Package: trino-plugin-lakehouse Package: trino-plugin-ldap-group-provider Package: trino-plugin-loki Package: trino-plugin-mariadb Package: trino-plugin-memory Package: trino-plugin-ml Package: trino-plugin-mongodb Package: trino-plugin-mysql Package: trino-plugin-mysql-event-listener Package: trino-plugin-opa Package: trino-plugin-openlineage Package: trino-plugin-opensearch Package: trino-plugin-oracle Package: trino-plugin-password-authenticators Package: trino-plugin-pinot Package: trino-plugin-postgresql Package: trino-plugin-prometheus Package: trino-plugin-ranger Package: trino-plugin-redis Package: trino-plugin-redshift Package: trino-plugin-resource-group-managers Package: trino-plugin-session-property-managers Package: trino-plugin-singlestore Package: trino-plugin-snowflake Package: trino-plugin-spooling-filesystem Package: trino-plugin-sqlserver Package: trino-plugin-teradata-functions Package: trino-plugin-thrift Package: trino-plugin-tpcds Package: trino-plugin-tpch Package: trino-plugin-vertica Ecosystem: Maven Ecosystem: Wolfi

Description

An attacker can use SnakeYAML to deserialize java.net.URLClassLoader and make it load a JAR from a specified URL, and then deserialize javax.script.ScriptEngineManager to load code using that ClassLoader. This unbounded deserialization can likely lead to remote code execution. The code can be run in Helix REST start and Workflow creation.

Affect all the versions lower and include 1.2.0.

Affected products: helix-core, helix-rest

Mitigation: Short term, stop using any YAML based configuration and workflow creation.
                  Long term, all Helix version bumping up to 1.3.0 

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Apache Software Foundation Apache Helix ≤ 1.2.0 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling trino +58 449-r0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Maven org.apache.helix:helix-core < 1.3.0 1.3.0 GHSA-jhcr-hph9-g7wm
Maven org.apache.helix:helix-rest < 1.3.0 1.3.0 GHSA-jhcr-hph9-g7wm

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