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Arbitrary Code Injection Affecting org.apache.ant:ant package, versions [,1.10.9)

0.0
low

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity High
    User Interaction Required

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.18% (55th percentile)
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NVD
7.5 high
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Red Hat
6.2 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHEANT-1015405
  • published 2 Oct 2020
  • disclosed 2 Oct 2020
  • credit Unknown
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Introduced: 2 Oct 2020

CVE-2020-11979 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-94 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade org.apache.ant:ant to version 1.10.9 or higher.

Overview

org.apache.ant:ant is a software tool for automating software build processes which originated from the Apache Tomcat project in early 2000.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Injection. As mitigation for CVE-2020-1945 Apache Ant 1.10.8 changed the permissions of temporary files it created so that only the current user was allowed to access them. Unfortunately the fixcrlf task deleted the temporary file and created a new one without said protection, effectively nullifying the effort. This would still allow an attacker to inject modified source files into the build process.

Alternative Mitigation:

The best mitigation against CVE-2020-11979 and CVE-2020-1945 still is to make Ant use a directory that is only readable and writable by the current user.

Ant users of versions 1.10.8 and 1.9.15 can use the Ant property ant.tmpdir to point to such a directory, users of versions 1.1 to 1.9.14 and 1.10.0 to 1.10.7 should set the java.io.tmpdir system property. This mitigation is external to the product.