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Ubuntu: USN-4741-1 (CVE-2017-7525): Jackson vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-4741-1 (CVE-2017-7525): Jackson vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/20/2017
Created
02/23/2021
Added
02/19/2021
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

A deserialization flaw was discovered in the jackson-databind, versions before 2.6.7.1, 2.7.9.1 and 2.8.9, which could allow an unauthenticated user to perform code execution by sending the maliciously crafted input to the readValue method of the ObjectMapper.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libjackson-json-java

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