K11522001 : Apache vulnerabilities CVE-2018-1313, CVE-2018-1338, CVE-2018-1339, CVE-2018-1335, and CVE-2018-8003

Security Advisory Description

• CVE-2018-1313

In Apache Derby 10.3.1.4 to 10.14.1.0, a specially-crafted network packet can be used to request the Derby Network Server to boot a database whose location and contents are under the user’s control. If the Derby Network Server is not running with a Java Security Manager policy file, the attack is successful. If the server is using a policy file, the policy file must permit the database location to be read for the attack to work. The default Derby Network Server policy file distributed with the affected releases includes a permissive policy as the default Network Server policy, which allows the attack to work.

• CVE-2018-1338

A carefully crafted (or fuzzed) file can trigger an infinite loop in Apache Tika’s BPGParser in versions of Apache Tika before 1.18.

• CVE-2018-1339

A carefully crafted (or fuzzed) file can trigger an infinite loop in Apache Tika’s ChmParser in versions of Apache Tika before 1.18.

• CVE-2018-1335

From Apache Tika versions 1.7 to 1.17, clients could send carefully crafted headers to tika-server that could be used to inject commands into the command line of the server running tika-server. This vulnerability only affects those running tika-server on a server that is open to untrusted clients. The mitigation is to upgrade to Tika 1.18.

• CVE-2018-8003

Apache Ambari, versions 1.4.0 to 2.6.1, is susceptible to a directory traversal attack allowing an unauthenticated user to craft an HTTP request which provides read-only access to any file on the filesystem of the host the Ambari Server runs on that is accessible by the user the Ambari Server is running as. Direct network access to the Ambari Server is required to issue this request, and those Ambari Servers that are protected behind a firewall, or in a restricted network zone are at less risk of being affected by this issue.

Impact

There is no impact; F5 products are not affected by these vulnerabilities.