Privilege Escalation in Hibernate Validator

Also known as GHSA-xxgp-pcfc-3vgc

Published 8 y ago 2018-01-10 · modified 4 mo ago 2026-06-17 · JSON

CVSS

7.0

v3.1 · NVD

CISA KEV

not known exploited

EPSS

0.5%

percentile 42%

Public exploits

none known

In Hibernate Validator 5.2.x before 5.2.5 final, 5.3.x, and 5.4.x, it was found that when the security manager's reflective permissions, which allows it to access the private members of the class, are granted to Hibernate Validator, a potential privilege escalation can occur. By allowing the calling code to access those private members without the permission an attacker may be able to validate an invalid instance and access the private member value via ConstraintViolation#getInvalidValue().

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.48% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 42% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned by	Version	Score	Vector
NVD	3.1	7.0	`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`
NVD	2.0	4.4	`AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P`
GitHub	3.1	7.0	`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`

Affected packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
maven	`org.hibernate:hibernate-validator`	>=5.2.0, <5.2.5.Final >=5.3.0, <5.3.6.Final >=5.4.0, <5.4.2.Final	5.2.5.Final 5.3.6.Final 5.4.2.Final

Affected products

Red Hat, Inc. hibernate-validator

Classification

Weakness

CWE-592 DEPRECATED: Authentication Bypass Issues
CWE-470 Use of Externally-Controlled Input to Select Classes or Code

References

access.redhat.com /errata/RHSA-2017:2809 · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT, x_transferred
access.redhat.com /errata/RHSA-2018:3817 · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT, x_transferred
access.redhat.com /errata/RHSA-2018:2740 · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT, x_transferred
access.redhat.com /errata/RHSA-2017:2810 · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT, x_transferred
access.redhat.com /errata/RHSA-2018:2741 · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT, x_transferred
securitytracker.com /id/1039744 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK, x_transferred
access.redhat.com /errata/RHSA-2018:2742 · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT, x_transferred
access.redhat.com /errata/RHSA-2017:3458 · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT, x_transferred
access.redhat.com /errata/RHSA-2017:2808 · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT, x_transferred
securityfocus.com /bid/101048 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred
access.redhat.com /errata/RHSA-2017:3455 · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT, x_transferred
access.redhat.com /errata/RHSA-2018:2927 · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT, x_transferred
access.redhat.com /errata/RHSA-2017:3456 · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT, x_transferred
access.redhat.com /errata/RHSA-2018:2743 · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT, x_transferred
access.redhat.com /errata/RHSA-2017:3454 · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT, x_transferred
access.redhat.com /errata/RHSA-2017:3141 · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT, x_transferred
access.redhat.com /errata/RHSA-2017:2811 · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT, x_transferred
bugzilla.redhat.com /show_bug.cgi?id=1465573 · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred
lists.apache.org /thread.html/9317fd092b257a0815434b116a8af8daea6e920b6673f4fd5583d5fe%40%3Ccommits.druid.a · mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, x_transferred
nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7536 · advisory
github.com /hibernate/hibernate-validator/commit/0886e89900d343ea20fde5137c9a3086e6da9ac · web
github.com /hibernate/hibernate-validator/commit/0778a5c98b817771a645c6f4ba0b28dd8b5437b · web
lists.apache.org /thread.html/9317fd092b257a0815434b116a8af8daea6e920b6673f4fd5583d5fe@%3Ccommits.druid.apa · web
github.com /hibernate/hibernate-validator · package

Sources

CVE List: CVE-2017-7536
GitHub Advisory: GHSA-xxgp-pcfc-3vgc
NVD: CVE-2017-7536

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Summary