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Apache Commons BCEL vulnerable to out-of-bounds write

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published Nov 7, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 19, 2024

Package

maven org.apache.bcel:bcel (Maven)

Affected versions

< 6.6.0

Patched versions

6.6.0

Description

Apache Commons BCEL has a number of APIs that would normally only allow changing specific class characteristics. However, due to an out-of-bounds writing issue, these APIs can be used to produce arbitrary bytecode. This could be abused in applications that pass attacker-controllable data to those APIs, giving the attacker more control over the resulting bytecode than otherwise expected. Update to Apache Commons BCEL 6.6.0.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Nov 7, 2022
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Nov 7, 2022
Reviewed Nov 7, 2022
Last updated Jan 19, 2024

Severity

Critical

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS score

2.331%
(89th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2022-42920

GHSA ID

GHSA-97xg-phpr-rg8q

Source code

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