Bug#985220: velocity: CVE-2020-13936

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: velocity
Version: 1.7-5.1
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
X-Debbugs-Cc: carnil at debian.org, Debian Security Team <team at security.debian.org>
Control: found -1 1.7-5

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for velocity.

CVE-2020-13936[0]:
| An attacker that is able to modify Velocity templates may execute
| arbitrary Java code or run arbitrary system commands with the same
| privileges as the account running the Servlet container. This applies
| to applications that allow untrusted users to upload/modify velocity
| templates running Apache Velocity Engine versions up to 2.2.


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-13936
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-13936
[1] https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/03/10/1

Regards,
Salvatore