Bug 2259513 (CVE-2017-20189)

Summary: CVE-2017-20189 clojure: executes arbitrary code upon deserialization
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Rohit Keshri <rkeshri>
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In Clojure before 1.9.0, classes can be used to construct a serialized object that executes arbitrary code upon deserialization. This is relevant if a server deserializes untrusted objects.
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Description Rohit Keshri 2024-01-22 07:30:05 UTC
In Clojure before 1.9.0, classes can be used to construct a serialized object that executes arbitrary code upon deserialization. This is relevant if a server deserializes untrusted objects.

https://clojure.atlassian.net/browse/CLJ-2204
https://github.com/clojure/clojure/commit/271674c9b484d798484d134a5ac40a6df15d3ac3
https://github.com/frohoff/ysoserial/pull/68/files
https://hackmd.io/%40fe1w0/HyefvRQKp
https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGCLOJURE-5740378

Comment 1 Rohit Keshri 2024-01-22 07:30:30 UTC
Created clojure tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 2259514]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 2259515]