CVE-2024-47561: Apache Avro Java SDK: Arbitrary Code Execution when reading Avro Data (Java SDK)

[Martin Tzvetanov Grigorov <mgrigorov () apache org>]

Severity: critical

Affected versions:

- Apache Avro Java SDK before 1.11.4

Description:

Schema parsing in the Java SDK of Apache Avro 1.11.3 and previous versions allows bad actors to execute arbitrary code.
Users are recommended to upgrade to version 1.11.4  or 1.12.0, which fix this issue.

Credit:

Kostya Kortchinsky, from the Databricks Security Team (finder)

References:

https://avro.apache.org/
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-47561