BeanShell: Arbitrary code execution — GLSA 201607-17

BeanShell is vulnerable to the remote execution of arbitrary code via Java serialization or XStream from an untrusted source.

Affected packages

dev-java/bsh on all architectures
Affected versions < 2.0_beta6
Unaffected versions >= 2.0_beta6

Background

BeanShell is a small, free, embeddable Java source interpreter with object scripting language features, written in Java.

Description

An application that includes BeanShell on the classpath may be vulnerable if another part of the application uses Java serialization or XStream to deserialize data from an untrusted source.

Impact

Remote attackers could execute arbitrary code including shell commands.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All BeanShell users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --verbose --oneshot ">=dev-java/bsh-2.0_beta6"
 

References

Release date
July 30, 2016

Latest revision
July 30, 2016: 1

Severity
normal

Exploitable
remote

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