CVE-2021-36162

HIGH

Apache Dubbo 2.7.0-2.7.12 and 0-2.7.12 - Remote Code Execution via SnakeYAML Constructor Deserialization

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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

References (1)

Core 1

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0101
EPSS Percentile 77.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (2)
apache/dubbo 2.7.0 - 2.7.12
org.apache.dubbo/dubbo 0 - 2.7.13Maven
Published Sep 07, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026