CVE-2014-2921 Pimcore Vulnerable to PHP Object Injection Attacks

What is CVE-2014-2921?

CVE-2014-2921 is a high-severity unsafe deserialization vulnerability in Pimcore Pimcore, published on 21 Apr 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The getObjectByToken function in Newsletter.php in the Pimcore_Tool_Newsletter module in pimcore 1.4.9 through 2.0.0 does not properly handle an object obtained by unserializing Lucene search data, which allows remote attackers to conduct PHP object injection attacks and execute arbitrary code via vectors involving a Zend_Pdf_ElementFactory_Proxy object and a pathname with a trailing \0 character.

Weakness: CWE-94

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-2921?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including pimcore/pimcore. It affects 1 product.

Products include Pimcore Pimcore.

How do I fix CVE-2014-2921?

Upgrade pimcore/pimcore to 2.2.0 or later.

Upgrade, and only deserialise data from trusted sources or with an allow-list of types. More about Unsafe deserialization.

Is CVE-2014-2921 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-2921 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-g7pj-3v97-3vxp.