Vulnerability CVE-2021-32700


Published: 2021-06-22

Description:
Ballerina is an open source programming language and platform for cloud application programmers. Ballerina versions 1.2.x and SL releases up to alpha 3 have a potential for a supply chain attack via MiTM against users. Http connections did not make use of TLS and certificate checking was ignored. The vulnerability allows an attacker to substitute or modify packages retrieved from BC thus allowing to inject malicious code into ballerina executables. This has been patched in Ballerina 1.2.14 and Ballerina SwanLake alpha4.

Type:

CWE-306

(Missing Authentication for Critical Function)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5.8/10
4.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
None
Affected software
Ballerina -> Ballerina 
Ballerina -> Swan lake 

 References:
https://github.com/ballerina-platform/ballerina-lang/security/advisories/GHSA-f5qg-fqrw-v5ww
https://github.com/ballerina-platform/ballerina-lang/commit/4609ffee1744ecd16aac09303b1783bf0a525816

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