CVE-2021-36162

Description

Apache Dubbo supports various rules to support configuration override or traffic routing (called routing in Dubbo). These rules are loaded into the configuration center (eg: Zookeeper, Nacos, ...) and retrieved by the customers when making a request in order to find the right endpoint. When parsing these YAML rules, Dubbo customers will use SnakeYAML library to load the rules which by default will enable calling arbitrary constructors. An attacker with access to the configuration center he will be able to poison the rule so when retrieved by the consumers, it will get RCE on all of them. This was fixed in Dubbo 2.7.13, 3.0.2

How to fix CVE-2021-36162

To remediate CVE-2021-36162, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

• —upgrade to 2.7.13 or later

Is CVE-2021-36162 being exploited?

Low — EPSS is 1.0%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.

Affected packages (1)

• from 0, < 2.7.13

CVSS scores

References (3)

• ADVISORYnvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-36162
• PATCHgithub.com/apache/dubbo
• WEBlists.apache.org/thread.html/rfa351115a459e214b99ffcc52c35f33359f3370c547d9c6ba1a60037%40%3Cdev.dubbo.apache.org%3E