GHSA-m9vc-x798-vm7f
Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessAuthenticate with stock OFBiz account
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DeliveryCall updateLayoutImage to write DataResource fields
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ExploitRetype DataResource as FreeMarker template evaluating its own key
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ExecutionPlant Form Widget with unsandboxed Groovy use-when
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ImpactExecute arbitrary OS commands as OFBiz process user
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Direct request prevention
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| Exploitation Conditions | Requires an authenticated session with any stock, non-administrative OFBiz account (PR:L) and network access to the OFBiz instance. The exact trigger is the updateLayoutImage event, which writes DataResource fields without a permission check; the attacker must create a DataResource, retype it as a FreeMarker (FTL) template that evaluates its own primary key, then use the resulting FreeMarker evaluation to plant an OFBiz Form Widget whose use-when attribute executes unsandboxed Groovy. Affected: Apache OFBiz 24.09 before 24.09.08 (note the broader EUVD range of all versions below 24.09.08). Limiting factors: a valid low-privileged account is mandatory (no fully unauthenticated path), but no administrative rights and no user interaction are needed, so instances with open or loosely controlled self-registration are substantially more exposed. |
| Impact | This is a genuine priority, not a CVSS-inflated paper risk, but it falls short of emergency. The supplied CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H = 8.8) is internally consistent with the described mechanism: a network-reachable event, no user interaction, and only a stock non-administrative account (PR:L) needed to reach full OS command execution as the OFBiz process user. The authentication requirement (PR:L, authenticated) is the single biggest mitigating factor and is confirmed both by the vector and the description ('stock non-administrative account'). EPSS is not provided in the input, so exploitation probability cannot be quantified. The vulnerability is NOT on CISA KEV and no PoC or exploit reference appears in the input, so there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis. The vuln.today decision label is 'this_week' (not act_now/emergency), consistent with a high-impact but authenticated flaw that is not yet known to be exploited. The practical risk is highest for OFBiz instances exposed to large or low-trust user populations, where obtaining a stock account is trivial; for instances where accounts are tightly controlled the barrier is meaningfully higher. CWE is labeled CWE-425 (Forced Browsing) in the input, but the description clearly describes Server-Side Template Injection - verify the weakness classification with the vendor. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A remote attacker who holds (or registers) any ordinary non-administrative OFBiz account invokes the updateLayoutImage event, which writes DataResource fields without a permission check, to retype an attacker-created DataResource as a FreeMarker (FTL) template and then plant an OFBiz Form Widget whose use-when attribute runs unsandboxed Groovy, achieving arbitrary OS command execution as the OFBiz process user. No user interaction is required and the chain is deterministic once a low-privileged session exists. No public exploit code is identified in the provided data. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv2 – Nov 06, 2026
Authenticated users holding only a stock, non-administrative OFBiz account can achieve arbitrary operating system command execution on Apache OFBiz 24.09 deployments prior to 24.09.08, through a chain that abuses the updateLayoutImage event, FreeMarker template evaluation and unsandboxed Groovy in a Form Widget use-when attribute. No administrative rights and no user interaction are required, so instances with open or loosely controlled self-registration are materially more exposed than those with tightly managed accounts. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis; the vendor has released 24.09.08 to fix the issue.
Earlier versions of this analysis (1)
Authenticated code execution in Apache OFBiz (all releases prior to 24.09.08) allows a user who already holds a valid session on the instance to execute code on the server, with the assessed impact triaged as high across confidentiality, integrity and availability (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H). The entry is one of roughly 44 issues disclosed and fixed together in the 24.09.08 release, and the specific feature, service or request path that triggers execution is not described in the available sources. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis and there is no CISA KEV listing; the vuln.today decision label remains 'awaiting_data', so urgency derives from the shared upgrade rather than from confirmed exploitation.
RemediationAI
Upgrade Apache OFBiz to 24.09.08, the version the vendor states fixes this issue, and treat any 24.09.x deployment below that build as vulnerable regardless of platform; the announcement is at https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2026/q4/516 with project-level information at https://ofbiz.apache.org/ and the thread at https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/7b2syzksp7klt9fvhdg0olldvs2g83lz. Because the exploit chain is gated only by possession of any stock non-administrative account (PR:L, no admin rights, no user interaction), exposure can be reduced pending upgrade by closing or tightly controlling self-registration and provisioning of low-privilege accounts, and by limiting network reachability of the OFBiz instance to trusted clients; both measures shrink the attacker pool but neither removes the underlying missing permission check on the updateLayoutImage event nor the unsandboxed Groovy execution path, so they are stopgaps only and carry the trade-off of restricting legitimate business users and integrations. No vendor-documented workaround beyond upgrading is described in the available sources.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
Apache OFBiz is a Java-based open-source ERP and business application framework whose screens and widgets are rendered through FreeMarker (FTL) templates, with Groovy used for conditional expressions such as the use-when attribute on Form Widget definitions. The description labels the flaw as Server-Side Template Injection, while the assigned CWE is CWE-425 (Direct Request / 'Forced Browsing'), which reflects the actual root cause: the updateLayoutImage event writes DataResource fields without performing a permission check, so a low-privileged authenticated user can reach and modify a resource they should not control. From there the documented chain retypes an attacker-created DataResource as an FTL template that evaluates its own primary key, uses that FreeMarker evaluation to plant an OFBiz Form Widget, and lets the widget's use-when attribute execute unsandboxed Groovy, which in turn runs operating system commands as the OFBiz process user. The CVSS vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H) confirms the prerequisites: network reachability, low privileges (any authenticated non-admin account), no user interaction, and high confidentiality, integrity and availability impact within the OFBiz scope. The trigger sequence itself is the one described in the advisory; no alternative trigger paths are documented in the available sources.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Network-reachable event (AV:N) exploitable by a stock low-privileged account (PR:L) with no user interaction, yielding OS command execution as the process user, so C/I/A all High; scope unchanged.
Primary rating from Vendor (CNA).
CVSS VectorVendor
Lifecycle Timeline
4Description PRE-NVD
Articles & Coverage 1
Executive ViewAI
Apache OFBiz 24.09 deployments before 24.09.08 are vulnerable to authenticated remote code execution, enabling any low-privileged user to execute arbitrary operating system commands. This puts sensitive business data and system integrity at risk, particularly in environments with open self-registration. Leadership should prioritize patching to prevent potential data breaches and operational disruption.
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Threat Intelligence Overview
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SSVC AssessmentENISA
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Attack Technique
Code injection occurs when an application accepts user input and passes it directly into a language interpreter or evaluator without proper sanitization.
EUVD-2026-117467
NVD
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EPSS
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