CVE-2018-14720 High Severity Vulnerability detected by WhiteSource

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CVE-2018-14720 - High Severity Vulnerability

Vulnerable Library - jackson-databind-2.9.6.jar

General data-binding functionality for Jackson: works on core streaming API

path: /root/.m2/repository/com/fasterxml/jackson/core/jackson-databind/2.9.6/jackson-databind-2.9.6.jar

Library home page: http://github.com/FasterXML/jackson

Dependency Hierarchy:

• spring-boot-starter-web-2.0.3.RELEASE.jar (Root Library)
  • spring-boot-starter-json-2.0.3.RELEASE.jar
    • ❌ jackson-databind-2.9.6.jar (Vulnerable Library)

Vulnerability Details

FasterXML jackson-databind 2.x before 2.9.7 might allow attackers to conduct external XML entity (XXE) attacks by leveraging failure to block unspecified JDK classes from polymorphic deserialization.

Publish Date: 2019-01-02

URL: CVE-2018-14720

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: Change files

Origin: FasterXML/jackson-databind@87d29af

Release Date: 2018-08-16

Fix Resolution: Replace or update the following files: VERSION, BeanDeserializerFactory.java

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