CVE-2022-45047
Description
A flaw was found in Apache MINA SSHD, when using Java deserialization to load a serialized java.security.PrivateKey. An attacker could benefit from unsafe deserialization by inserting unsecured data that may affect the application or server.
Statement
Red Hat Impact as High as there's a mitigation for minimizing the impact which the flaw requires org.apache.sshd.server.keyprovider.SimpleGeneratorHostKeyProvider to be impacted, which would require an external/public API for an attacker to benefit from it.
Red Hat Fuse 7 and Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 have a lower rate (moderate) as it's very unlikely to be exploited since those are for internal usage or use a custom implementation in their case.
Mitigation
From the maintainer:
For Apache MINA SSHD <= 2.9.1, do not use org.apache.sshd.server.keyprovider.SimpleGeneratorHostKeyProvider to generate and later load your server's host key. Use separately generated host key files, for instance in OpenSSH format, and load them via a org.apache.sshd.common.keyprovider.FileKeyPairProvider instead. Or use a custom implementation instead of
SimpleGeneratorHostKeyProvider that uses the OpenSSH format for storing and loading the host key (via classes OpenSSHKeyPairResourceWriter and OpenSSHKeyPairResourceParser).
Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) Score Details
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CVSS v3 Score Breakdown
| Red Hat | NVD | cve.org | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base Score | 9.8 | 9.8 | 9.8 |
| Attack Vector | Network | Network | Network |
| Attack Complexity | Low | Low | Low |
| Privileges Required | None | None | None |
| User Interaction | None | None | None |
| Scope | Unchanged | Unchanged | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | High | High | High |
| Integrity Impact | High | High | High |
| Availability Impact | High | High | High |
Vector
Red Hat: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
cve.org: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Understanding the Weakness (CWE)
Integrity
Technical Impact: Modify Application Data; Unexpected State
Attackers can modify unexpected objects or data that was assumed to be safe from modification. Deserialized data or code could be modified without using the provided accessor functions, or unexpected functions could be invoked.
Availability
Technical Impact: DoS: Resource Consumption (CPU)
If a function is making an assumption on when to terminate, based on a sentry in a string, it could easily never terminate.
Other
Technical Impact: Varies by Context
The consequences can vary widely, because it depends on which objects or methods are being deserialized, and how they are used. Making an assumption that the code in the deserialized object is valid is dangerous and can enable exploitation. One example is attackers using gadget chains to perform unauthorized actions, such as generating a shell.
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