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    CVE-2019-16941

    NSA Ghidra through 9.0.4, when experimental mode is enabled, allows arbitrary code execution if the Read XML Files feature of Bit Patterns Explorer is used with a modified XML document. This occurs in Features/BytePatterns/src/main/java/ghidra/bitpatterns/info/FileBitPatternInfoReader.java. An attack could start with an XML document that was originally created by DumpFunctionPatternInfoScript but then directly modified by an attacker (for example, to make a java.lang.Runtime.exec call).

    Published:Sep 28, 2019
    Last Modified:Nov 21, 2024
    EPS:Sep 28, 2019
    EPSS Score:0.22862
    CVSS Score:9.8

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Nsa
    Product
    Ghidra

    Exploits

    https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/issues/1090https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/issues/1090https://github.com/purpleracc00n/CVE-2019-16941

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-250 XML Injection
    CAPEC-83 XPath Injection

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    References

    https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/blob/79d8f164f8bb8b15cfb60c5d4faeb8e1c25d15ca/Ghidra/Features/BytePatterns/src/main/java/ghidra/bitpatterns/info/FileBitPatternInfoReader.java#L187-L188
    https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/commit/a17728f8c12effa171b17a25ccfb7e7d9528c5d0
    https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/issues/1090
    https://github.com/purpleracc00n/CVE-2019-16941
    https://twitter.com/NSAGov/status/1178812792159248385
    https://www.symantec.com/security-center/vulnerabilities/writeup/110223?om_rssid=sr-advisories
    https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/blob/79d8f164f8bb8b15cfb60c5d4faeb8e1c25d15ca/Ghidra/Features/BytePatterns/src/main/java/ghidra/bitpatterns/info/FileBitPatternInfoReader.java#L187-L188
    https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/commit/a17728f8c12effa171b17a25ccfb7e7d9528c5d0
    https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/issues/1090
    https://github.com/purpleracc00n/CVE-2019-16941
    https://twitter.com/NSAGov/status/1178812792159248385
    https://www.symantec.com/security-center/vulnerabilities/writeup/110223?om_rssid=sr-advisories

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High