CVE-2025-57738 (GCVE-0-2025-57738)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-10-20 14:43
Modified
2025-11-04 21:13
Severity ?
CWE
  • CWE-653 - Improper Isolation or Compartmentalization
Summary
Apache Syncope offers the ability to extend / customize the base behavior on every deployment by allowing to provide custom implementations of a few Java interfaces; such implementations can be provided either as Java or Groovy classes, with the latter being particularly attractive as the machinery is set for runtime reload. Such a feature has been available for a while, but recently it was discovered that a malicious administrator can inject Groovy code that can be executed remotely by a running Apache Syncope Core instance. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 3.0.14 / 4.0.2, which fix this issue by forcing the Groovy code to run in a sandbox.
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Apache Software Foundation Apache Syncope Version: 2.1   ≤ 2.1.14
Version: 3.0   ≤ 3.0.13
Version: 4.0   ≤ 4.0.1
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