CVE-2021-29485

Description

Ratpack is a toolkit for creating web applications. In versions prior to 1.9.0, a malicious attacker can achieve Remote Code Execution (RCE) via a maliciously crafted Java deserialization gadget chain leveraged against the Ratpack session store. If ones application does not use Ratpacks session mechanism, it is not vulnerable. Ratpack 1.9.0 introduces a strict allow-list mechanism that mitigates this vulnerability when used. Two possible workarounds exist. The simplest mitigation for users of earlier versions is to reduce the likelihood of attackers being able to write to the session data store. Alternatively or additionally, the allow-list mechanism could be manually back ported by providing an alternative implementation of SessionSerializer that uses an allow-list.

Risk Information

Base Score

8.8

MODERATE

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

2.483

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
Vulnerabilities CVE-2021-29479,CVE-2021-29485 are fixed in Ratpack-ratpack-core 1.9.0	Windows
Vulnerabilities CVE-2021-29479,CVE-2021-29485 are fixed in Ratpack-ratpack-core for Linux 1.9.0	Linux

Patch Details

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234