Ubuntu Security Notices
USN-4496-1

USN-4496-1: Apache XML-RPC vulnerability

Publication date

15 September 2020

Overview

Apache XML-RPC could be made to execute arbitrary code if it received specially crafted data by a malicious XML-RPC server.

Releases

18.04 LTS 16.04 LTS

Packages

libxmlrpc3-java - XML-RPC implementation in Java

Details

It was discovered that Apache XML-RPC (aka ws-xmlrpc) does not properly
deserialize untrusted data. An attacker could possibly use this issue to
execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2019-17570)

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release	Package Version
18.04 bionic	libxmlrpc3-client-java – 3.1.3-9+deb10u1build0.18.04.1
	libxmlrpc3-common-java – 3.1.3-9+deb10u1build0.18.04.1
	libxmlrpc3-server-java – 3.1.3-9+deb10u1build0.18.04.1
16.04 xenial	libxmlrpc3-client-java – 3.1.3-7+deb8u1build0.16.04.1
	libxmlrpc3-common-java – 3.1.3-7+deb8u1build0.16.04.1
	libxmlrpc3-server-java – 3.1.3-7+deb8u1build0.16.04.1

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References

CVE-2019-17570

CVE-2019-17570