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Use of Externally-Controlled Input to Select Classes or Code ('Unsafe Reflection')

CVE-2019-10174

High
8.8/10

Summary

A vulnerability was found in Infinispan before 8.2.12, 9.x before 9.3.9, 9.4.x before 9.4.17 and between 10.0.0.Alpha1 and 10.0.0.CR3 such that the invokeAccessibly method from the public class ReflectionUtil allows any application class to invoke private methods in any class with Infinispan's privileges. The attacker can use reflection to introduce new, malicious behavior into the application.

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

CWE-470 - Use of Externally-Controlled Input to Select Classes or Code ('Unsafe Reflection')

The application uses external input with reflection to select which classes or code to use, but it does not sufficiently prevent the input from selecting improper classes or code.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published