Potential OGNL Injection Exploitation In JVM Based Application

 1title: Potential OGNL Injection Exploitation In JVM Based Application
 2id: 4d0af518-828e-4a04-a751-a7d03f3046ad
 3status: test
 4description: |
 5    Detects potential OGNL Injection exploitation, which may lead to RCE.
 6    OGNL is an expression language that is supported in many JVM based systems.
 7    OGNL Injection is the reason for some high profile RCE's such as Apache Struts (CVE-2017-5638) and Confluence (CVE-2022-26134)    
 8references:
 9    - https://www.wix.engineering/post/threat-and-vulnerability-hunting-with-application-server-error-logs
10author: Moti Harmats
11date: 2023-02-11
12tags:
13    - attack.initial-access
14    - attack.t1190
15    - cve.2017-5638
16    - cve.2022-26134
17logsource:
18    category: application
19    product: jvm
20    definition: 'Requirements: application error logs must be collected (with LOG_LEVEL=ERROR and above)'
21detection:
22    keywords:
23        - 'org.apache.commons.ognl.OgnlException'
24        - 'ExpressionSyntaxException'
25    condition: keywords
26falsepositives:
27    - Application bugs
28level: high

References

• Threat and Vulnerability Hunting with Application Server Error Logs

  

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