Input-sanitization bypass via escaped delimiter tokenization
Published May 26, 2021 · Updated Aug 3, 2024
Improper input validation in Eclipse Expressly 3.0.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to bypass EL-expression sanitization. The ELParserTokenManager consumes a backslash after a literal dollar sign, leaving the following hash sign unescaped so an escaped deferred-expression delimiter is tokenized and evaluated. Exploitation requires a hosting application to place attacker-controlled text in an EL-evaluated context and rely on escaping or stripping controls; the bypass evaluates attacker-supplied expressions and can lead to code execution in affected applications.
Summary
What happened
Improper input validation in Eclipse Expressly 3.0.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to bypass EL-expression sanitization. The ELParserTokenManager consumes a backslash after a literal dollar sign, leaving the following hash sign unescaped so an escaped deferred-expression delimiter is tokenized and evaluated. Exploitation requires a hosting application to place attacker-controlled text in an EL-evaluated context and rely on escaping or stripping controls; the bypass evaluates attacker-supplied expressions and can lead to code execution in affected applications.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2021-28170
- Published
- May 26, 2021
- Updated
- Aug 3, 2024
- Vendor
- The Eclipse Foundation
- Product
- Eclipse Expressly
- Classifications
- CWE-917, CWE-20
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- May 26, 2021CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 3, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=unspecified <=3.0.3
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