CVE-2017-3159

camel-snakeyaml: Unmarshalling operation is vulnerable to RCE

Severity Score

9.8

*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

Apache Camel's camel-snakeyaml component is vulnerable to Java object de-serialization vulnerability. De-serializing untrusted data can lead to security flaws.

El componente camel-snakeyaml de Apache Camel es vulnerable a la vulnerabilidad de la deserialización de objetos Java. La deserialización de datos no confiables puede conducir a a fallos de seguridad.

It was found that the camel-snakeyaml component is exploitable for code execution. An attacker could use this vulnerability to send specially crafted payload to a camel-snakeyaml endpoint and causing a remote code execution attack.

Red Hat JBoss Fuse, based on Apache ServiceMix, provides a small-footprint, flexible, open source enterprise service bus and integration platform. Red Hat JBoss A-MQ, based on Apache ActiveMQ, is a standards compliant messaging system that is tailored for use in mission critical applications. This patch is an update to Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6.3 and Red Hat JBoss A-MQ 6.3. It includes bug fixes and enhancements, which are documented in the readme.txt file included with the patch files. Multiple security issues have been addressed.

*Credits: N/A

CVSS Scores

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

High

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

Partial

Integrity

Partial

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2016-12-05 CVE Reserved
2017-03-07 CVE Published
2024-08-05 CVE Updated
2025-03-30 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-502: Deserialization of Untrusted Data

CAPEC

References (9)

URL	Tag	Source
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/22/2	Mailing List
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96321	Third Party Advisory
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/2318d7f7d87724d8716cd650c21b31cb06e4d34f6d0f5ee42f28fdaf%40%3Ccommits.camel.apache.org%3E	Mailing List
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b4014ea7c5830ca1fc28edd5cafedfe93ad4af2d9e69c961c5def31d%40%3Ccommits.camel.apache.org%3E	Mailing List
https://www.github.com/mbechler/marshalsec/blob/master/marshalsec.pdf?raw=true	Third Party Advisory

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
http://camel.apache.org/security-advisories.data/CVE-2017-3159.txt.asc?version=1&modificationDate=1486565167000&api=v2	2023-11-07
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0868	2023-11-07
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-3159	2017-04-03
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1420834	2017-04-03

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Apache Search vendor "Apache"		Camel Search vendor "Apache" for product "Camel"				<= 2.14.4 Search vendor "Apache" for product "Camel" and version " <= 2.14.4"		-		Affected
Apache Search vendor "Apache"		Camel Search vendor "Apache" for product "Camel"				>= 2.17.0 <= 2.17.4 Search vendor "Apache" for product "Camel" and version " >= 2.17.0 <= 2.17.4"		-		Affected
Apache Search vendor "Apache"		Camel Search vendor "Apache" for product "Camel"				>= 2.18.0 <= 2.18.1 Search vendor "Apache" for product "Camel" and version " >= 2.18.0 <= 2.18.1"		-		Affected