Ubuntu Security Notices
USN-6730-1

USN-6730-1: Apache Maven Shared Utils vulnerability

Publication date

11 April 2024

Overview

maven-shared-utils could be made to run programs if it received specially crafted input.

Releases

22.04 LTS 20.04 LTS 18.04 LTS 16.04 LTS 14.04 LTS

Packages

maven-shared-utils - A collection of Maven utility classes.

Details

It was discovered that Apache Maven Shared Utils did not handle double-quoted
strings properly, allowing shell injection attacks. This could allow an
attacker to run arbitrary code.

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
22.04 jammy	libmaven-shared-utils-java – 3.3.0-1ubuntu0.22.04.1
20.04 focal	libmaven-shared-utils-java – 3.3.0-1ubuntu0.20.04.1
18.04 bionic	libmaven-shared-utils-java – 3.3.0-1ubuntu0.18.04.1~esm1
16.04 xenial	libmaven-shared-utils-java – 0.9-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
14.04 trusty	libmaven-shared-utils-java – 0.4-1ubuntu0.1~esm1

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References

CVE-2022-29599

CVE-2022-29599