Deserialization of Untrusted Data in Neo4j
Critical severity
GitHub Reviewed
Published
Sep 1, 2021
to the GitHub Advisory Database
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Updated Feb 1, 2023
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Aug 5, 2021
Reviewed
Aug 30, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
Sep 1, 2021
Last updated
Feb 1, 2023
Neo4j through 3.4.18 (with the shell server enabled) exposes an RMI service that arbitrarily deserializes Java objects, e.g., through setSessionVariable. An attacker can abuse this for remote code execution because there are dependencies with exploitable gadget chains.
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