GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Maven
GHSA-7c5v-895v-w4q5 jooby-pac4j: deserialization of untrusted data
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2025-31129
- Ecosystem
- Maven
- Packages
- io.jooby:jooby-pac4j
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-502
- Reviewed
- 2025-04-01
Affected packages
• Maven io.jooby:jooby-pac4j: < 2.17.0 → fixed in 2.17.0
• Maven io.jooby:jooby-pac4j: >= 3.0.0.M1, < 3.7.0 → fixed in 3.7.0
Description
Impact
Versions after 2.x and before 3.x of io.jooby:jooby-pac4j can cause deserialization of untrusted data
Patches
• 2.17.0 (2.x)
• 3.7.0 (3.x)
Workarounds
• Not using io.jooby:jooby-pac4j until it gets patches.
• Check what values you put/save on session
References
Version 2.x:
https://github.com/jooby-project/jooby/blob/v2.x/modules/jooby-pac4j/src/main/java/io/jooby/internal/pac4j/SessionStoreImpl.java#L39-L45
Version 3.x:
https://github.com/jooby-project/jooby/blob/v3.6.1/modules/jooby-pac4j/src/main/java/io/jooby/internal/pac4j/SessionStoreImpl.java#L77-L84
Cause
In module pac4j io.jooby.internal.pac4j.SessionStoreImpl#get , it is used to handle sessions , and trying to get key value. In strToObject function ,it's trying to deserialize value when value starts with "b64~" , which might cause deserialization of untrusted data.
modules/jooby-pac4j/src/main/java/io/jooby/internal/pac4j/SessionStoreImpl.java
Here's a small demo using SessionStoreImpl#get to handle sessions ,and user can pass parameters.
And following below is exploiting successfully(execute calculator)
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2025-31129 Jooby is a web framework for Java and Kotlin. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data weakness
References
- https://github.com/jooby-project/jooby/security/advisories/GHSA-7c5v-895v-w4q5 web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-31129 advisory
- https://github.com/jooby-project/jooby/commit/3e13562cf36d7407813eae464e0f4b598de15692 web
- https://github.com/jooby-project/jooby package
- https://github.com/jooby-project/jooby/blob/v2.x/modules/jooby-pac4j/src/main/java/io/jooby/internal/pac4j/SessionStoreImpl.java#L39-L45 web
- https://github.com/jooby-project/jooby/blob/v3.6.1/modules/jooby-pac4j/src/main/java/io/jooby/internal/pac4j/SessionStoreImpl.java#L77-L84 web