Bug#1057315: tiles: CVE-2023-49735

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: tiles
Version: 3.0.7-5
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
X-Debbugs-Cc: apo at debian.org, ebourg at apache.org, carnil at debian.org, Debian Security Team <team at security.debian.org>

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for tiles.

CVE-2023-49735[0]:
| ** UNSUPPORTED WHEN ASSIGNED **  The value set as the
| DefaultLocaleResolver.LOCALE_KEY attribute on the session was not
| validated while resolving XML definition files, leading to possible
| path traversal and eventually SSRF/XXE when passing user-controlled
| data to this key. Passing user-controlled data to this key may be
| relatively common, as it was also used like that to set the language
| in the 'tiles-test' application shipped with Tiles.  This issue
| affects Apache Tiles from version 2 onwards.  NOTE: This
| vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by
| the maintainer.


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

The project is dead-upstream TTBOMK, so not sure if/what we can do at
all for this issue. Removal seems not possible as per:

carnil at respighi:~$ dak rm --suite=unstable -n -R tiles
Will remove the following packages from unstable:

libtiles-java |    3.0.7-5 | all
libtiles-java-doc |    3.0.7-5 | all
     tiles |    3.0.7-5 | source

Maintainer: Debian Java Maintainers <pkg-java-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org>

------------------- Reason -------------------

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Checking reverse dependencies...
# Broken Build-Depends:
libspring-java: libtiles-java (>= 3.0)

Dependency problem found.

carnil at respighi:~$

But maybe we can set it as "no-dsa", is it only used as build
dependency for libspring-java and not sensible outside?

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-49735
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-49735

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore