Bug#1051288: axis: CVE-2023-40743

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: axis
Version: 1.4-28
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
X-Debbugs-Cc: carnil at debian.org, Debian Security Team <team at security.debian.org>

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for axis.

CVE-2023-40743[0]:
| ** UNSUPPORTED WHEN ASSIGNED ** When integrating Apache Axis 1.x in
| an application, it may not have been obvious that looking up a
| service through "ServiceFactory.getService" allows potentially
| dangerous lookup mechanisms such as LDAP. When passing untrusted
| input to this API method, this could expose the application to DoS,
| SSRF and even attacks leading to RCE.  As Axis 1 has been EOL we
| recommend you migrate to a different SOAP engine, such as Apache
| Axis 2/Java. As a workaround, you may review your code to verify no
| untrusted or unsanitized input is passed to
| "ServiceFactory.getService", or by applying the patch from
| https://github.com/apache/axis-
| axis1-java/commit/7e66753427466590d6def0125e448d2791723210 . The
| Apache Axis project does not expect to create an Axis 1.x release
| fixing this problem, though contributors that would like to work
| towards this are welcome.


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-2023-40743
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-40743
[1] https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/09/05/1
[2] https://github.com/apache/axis-axis1-java/commit/7e66753427466590d6def0125e448d2791723210

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore