PT-2023-1265

CVE-2023-23477

Published

2023-01-31

Updated

2023-02-10

Description by

CVSS 3.1

9.8

Critical

MetricsAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions IBM WebSphere Application Server versions 8.5 through 9.0

Description The issue is related to errors in handling serialized data, which can be exploited by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system using a specially crafted sequence of serialized objects.

Recommendations For IBM WebSphere Application Server versions 8.5 through 9.0, update to a version that includes the fix for this issue to prevent remote code execution. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to serialized objects to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploitability

Fix

Impacts

Researchers

Liboheng

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-502: Deserialization of Untrusted Data

CWE-94: Improper Control of Generation of Code (\'Code Injection\')

Related identifiers

CVE-2023-23477