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Deserialization of Untrusted Data

CVE-2018-1000525

Severity High
Score 9.8/10

Summary

openpsa before 9.5.0 contains a PHP Object Injection vulnerability in Form data passed as GET request variables that can result in Possible information disclosure and remote code execution. This attack appear to be exploitable via Specially crafted GET request variable containing serialised PHP object. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in after commit 097eae0.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-502 - Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Deserialization of untrusted data vulnerabilities enable an attacker to replace or manipulate a serialized object, replacing it with malicious data. When the object is deserialized at the victim's end the malicious data is able to compromise the victim’s system. The exploit can be devastating, its impact may range from privilege escalation, broken access control, or denial of service attacks to allowing unauthorized access to the application's internal code and logic which can compromise the entire system.

Advisory Timeline

  • Published