CVE-2023-38647

CRITICAL

Helix <1.2.0 - Code Injection

Title source: llm

Description

An attacker can use SnakeYAML to deserialize java.net.URLClassLoader and make it load a JAR from a specified URL, and then deserialize javax.script.ScriptEngineManager to load code using that ClassLoader. This unbounded deserialization can likely lead to remote code execution. The code can be run in Helix REST start and Workflow creation. Affect all the versions lower and include 1.2.0. Affected products: helix-core, helix-rest Mitigation: Short term, stop using any YAML based configuration and workflow creation.                   Long term, all Helix version bumping up to 1.3.0 

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.0051
EPSS Percentile 65.9%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Classification

CWE
CWE-502
Status published

Affected Products (3)

apache/helix < 1.3.0
org.apache.helix/helix-core < 1.3.0Maven
org.apache.helix/helix-rest < 1.3.0Maven

Timeline

Published Jul 26, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026