Advisories » MGASA-2021-0183

Updated velocity packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 12 Apr 2021
Modification date: 12 Apr 2021
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7 , 8
CVE: CVE-2020-13936

Description

An attacker that is able to modify Velocity templates may execute arbitrary
Java code or run arbitrary system commands with the same privileges as the
account running the Servlet container.  This applies to applications that allow
untrusted users to upload/modify velocity templates running Apache Velocity
Engine versions up to 2.2 (CVE-2020-13936).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28681
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/03/10/1
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-13936

SRPMS

7/core

• velocity-1.7-22.1.mga7

8/core

• velocity-1.7-33.1.mga8