CVE-2020-13936 (GCVE-0-2020-13936)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-03-10 08:00 – Updated: 2025-02-13 16:27
VLAI?
Title
Velocity Sandbox Bypass
Summary
An attacker that is able to modify Velocity templates may execute arbitrary Java code or run arbitrary system commands with the same privileges as the account running the Servlet container. This applies to applications that allow untrusted users to upload/modify velocity templates running Apache Velocity Engine versions up to 2.2.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • Velocity Sandbox Bypass
Assigner
References
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r01043f584cb… x_refsource_MISC
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r01043f584cb… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb042f3b0090… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/03/10/1 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r3ea4c4c9085… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd2a89e17e8a… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/re641197d204… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rbee7270556f… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/reab5978b54a… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd7e865c87f9… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/re8e7482fe54… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r0bc98e9cd08… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r39de20c7e9c… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r17cb932fab1… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r4cd59453b65… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r7f209b83721… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r293284c6806… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf7d369de88d… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-52 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9dc25056517… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r52a5129df40… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html x_refsource_MISC
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html x_refsource_MISC
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Apache Software Foundation Apache Velocity Engine Affected: Apache Velocity Engine , ≤ 2.2 (custom)
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Credits
This issue was discovered by Alvaro Munoz pwntester@github.com of Github Security Labs and was originally reported as GHSL-2020-048.
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