Evil Pickles: DoS Attacks Based on Object-Graph Engineering

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Evil Pickles: DoS Attacks Based on Object-Graph Engineering

Original language description

In recent years, multiple vulnerabilities exploiting the serialisation APIs of various programming languages, including Java, have been discovered. These vulnerabilities can be used to devise in- jection attacks, exploiting the presence of dynamic programming language features like reflection or dynamic proxies. In this paper, we investigate a new type of serialisation-related vulnerabilit- ies for Java that exploit the topology of object graphs constructed from classes of the standard library in a way that deserialisation leads to resource exhaustion, facilitating denial of service attacks. We analyse three such vulnerabilities that can be exploited to exhaust stack memory, heap memory and CPU time. We discuss the language and library design features that enable these vulnerabilities, and investigate whether these vulnerabilities can be ported to C#, Java- Script and Ruby. We present two case studies that demonstrate how the vulnerabilities can be used in attacks on two widely used servers, Jenkins deployed on Tomcat and JBoss. Finally, we propose a mitigation strategy based on contract injection

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Project

<a href="/en/project/LO1506" target="_blank" >LO1506: Sustainability support of the centre NTIS - New Technologies for the Information Society</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

31st European Conference on Object-Oriented programming

ISBN

978-3-95977-035-4

ISSN

1868-8969

e-ISSN

neuvedeno

Number of pages

32

Pages from-to

1-32

Publisher name

Schloss Dagstuhl

Place of publication

Schloss Dagstuhl

Event location

Barcelona, Spain

Event date

Jun 18, 2017

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

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