Critical vulnerability found in cron-utils

Summary

Cron-utils is a Java library to parse, validate, migrate crons as well as get human readable descriptions for them. In cron-utils before version 9.1.3, a template Injection vulnerability is present. This enables attackers to inject arbitrary Java EL expressions, leading to unauthenticated Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability. Only projects using the @Cron annotation to validate untrusted Cron expressions are affected. This issue was patched in version 9.1.3.

Timeline

1. Nov 24, 2020, 11:50 PM UTCCVE published
2. Aug 4, 2024, 3:56 PM UTCRecord last updated

Affected versions

• jmrozanec cron-utils

  fixed in 9.1.3

• com.cronutils:cron-utilsMaven

  fixed in 9.1.3

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