CVE-2016-6814 (Critical) detected in groovy-all-2.3.9.jar

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CVE-2016-6814 - Critical Severity Vulnerability

Vulnerable Library - groovy-all-2.3.9.jar

Groovy: A powerful, dynamic language for the JVM

Path to dependency file: /docs/build.gradle

Path to vulnerable library: /home/wss-scanner/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/org.codehaus.groovy/groovy-all/2.3.9/eef909854b840bed787b3d9fc762b6fa20059e33/groovy-all-2.3.9.jar

Dependency Hierarchy:

• asciidoctorj-groovy-dsl-1.0.0.Alpha2.pom (Root Library)
  • :x: groovy-all-2.3.9.jar (Vulnerable Library)

Found in HEAD commit: 8d1e24260d1985acc52e5d1710bcc43fcf3848ca

Found in base branch: master

Vulnerability Details

When an application with unsupported Codehaus versions of Groovy from 1.7.0 to 2.4.3, Apache Groovy 2.4.4 to 2.4.7 on classpath uses standard Java serialization mechanisms, e.g. to communicate between servers or to store local data, it was possible for an attacker to bake a special serialized object that will execute code directly when deserialized. All applications which rely on serialization and do not isolate the code which deserializes objects were subject to this vulnerability.

Publish Date: 2018-01-18

URL: CVE-2016-6814

CVSS 3 Score Details (9.8)

Base Score Metrics:

• Exploitability Metrics:
  • Attack Vector: Network
  • Attack Complexity: Low
  • Privileges Required: None
  • User Interaction: None
  • Scope: Unchanged
• Impact Metrics:
  • Confidentiality Impact: High
  • Integrity Impact: High
  • Availability Impact: High

For more information on CVSS3 Scores, click here.

Suggested Fix

Type: Upgrade version

Origin: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6814

Release Date: 2018-01-15

Fix Resolution (org.codehaus.groovy:groovy-all): 2.4.8

Direct dependency fix Resolution (org.asciidoctor:asciidoctorj-groovy-dsl): 2.0.1

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