CVE-2023-40743

Description

** UNSUPPORTED WHEN ASSIGNED ** When integrating Apache Axis 1.x in an application, it may not have been obvious that looking up a service through "ServiceFactory.getService" allows potentially dangerous lookup mechanisms such as LDAP. When passing untrusted input to this API method, this could expose the application to DoS, SSRF and even attacks leading to RCE. As Axis 1 has been EOL we recommend you migrate to a different SOAP engine, such as Apache Axis 2/Java. As a workaround, you may review your code to verify no untrusted or unsanitized input is passed to "ServiceFactory.getService", or by applying the patch from https://github.com/apache/axis-axis1-java/commit/7e66753427466590d6def0125e448d2791723210 . The Apache Axis project does not expect to create an Axis 1.x release fixing this problem, though contributors that would like to work towards this are welcome.

How to fix CVE-2023-40743

To remediate CVE-2023-40743, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

• —upgrade to 1.4-28+deb11u1 or later
• —upgrade to 1.4-28+deb10u1 or later
• —no fix listed
• —no fix listed

Is CVE-2023-40743 being exploited?

Low — EPSS is 0.7%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.

Affected packages (4)

• from 0, < 1.4-28+deb11u1
• from 0, < 1.4-28+deb10u1
• from 0, <= 1.4
• from 0, <= 1.4

CVSS scores

References (6)

• ADVISORYnvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-40743
• ADVISORYsecurity-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-40743
• PATCHgithub.com/apache/axis-axis1-java
• WEBgithub.com/apache/axis-axis1-java/commit/7e66753427466590d6def0125e448d2791723210