Improper Isolation or Compartmentalization vulnerability in Apache Syncope
Summary
Improper Isolation or Compartmentalization vulnerability in Apache Syncope. An administrator with adequate entitlements can import arbitrary BPMN process definitions via the REST API and then start the process. When a BPMN process containing a Groovy scriptTask is imported and started, the Groovy script is executed directly on the server, with no sandbox. This issue affects Apache Syncope: from 3.0.0-M0 through 3.0.16, from 4.0.0-M0 Through 4.0.6, from 4.1.0-M0 through 4.1.1. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 4.0.7 / 4.1.2, which fix this issue by wrapping Flowable's Groovy scriptTasks with security sandbox.
What this means
In plain English
Improper Isolation or Compartmentalization vulnerability in Apache Syncope. An administrator with adequate entitlements can import arbitrary BPMN process definitions via the REST API and then start the process. When a BPMN process containing a Groovy scriptTask is imported and started, the Groovy script is executed directly on the server, with no sandbox. This issue affects Apache Syncope: from 3.0.0-M0 through 3.0.16, from 4.0.0-M0 Through 4.0.6, from 4.1.0-M0 through 4.1.1. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 4.0.7 / 4.1.2, which fix this issue by wrapping Flowable's Groovy scriptTasks with security sandbox.
Recommended action
Primary action: update to a vendor-listed fixed release: 4.0.7, 4.1.2. Vendor mitigation: Users are recommended to upgrade to version 4.0.7 / 4.1.2, which fix this issue by wrapping Flowable's Groovy scriptTasks with security sandbox.
Rewritten locally from the scraped official advisory data above; no generative API is used. The vendor advisory is authoritative.
- 3.0.0-M0 through 3.0.16
- 4.0.0-M0 through 4.0.6
- 4.1.0-M0 through 4.1.1.
- through 4.1.1
Official advisory · medium-confidence parse· fetched 15 hours ago·verify at source
- 4.0.7
- 4.1.2
Official advisory · medium-confidence parse· fetched 15 hours ago·verify at source
Mitigation checklist
- Users are recommended to upgrade to version 4.0.7 / 4.1.2, which fix this issue by wrapping Flowable's Groovy scriptTasks with security sandbox.
Official advisory · medium-confidence parse· fetched 15 hours ago·verify at source
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