CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-41037

8.0 HIGH Published 2022-07-08 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2022-07-08
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
10.0 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-829

Description

In Eclipse p2, installable units are able to alter the Eclipse Platform installation and the local machine via touchpoints during installation. Those touchpoints can, for example, alter the command-line used to start the application, injecting things like agent or other settings that usually require particular attention in term of security. Although p2 has built-in strategies to ensure artifacts are signed and then to help establish trust, there is no such strategy for the metadata part that does configure such touchpoints. As a result, it's possible to install a unit that will run malicious code during installation without user receiving any warning about this installation step being risky when coming from untrusted source.

Affected configurations

• eclipse equinox p2 (>= 1.0.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-829 Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere weakness

References