GHSA-wxr5-93ph-8wr9

A special BeanIntrospector class was added in version 1.9.2. This can be used to stop attackers from using the declared class property of Java enum objects to get access to the classloader. However this protection was not enabled by default. PropertyUtilsBean (and consequently BeanUtilsBean) now disallows declared class level property access by default.

Releases 1.11.0 and 2.0.0-M2 address a potential security issue when accessing enum properties in an uncontrolled way. If an application using Commons BeanUtils passes property paths from an external source directly to the getProperty() method of PropertyUtilsBean, an attacker can access the enum’s class loader via the “declaredClass” property available on all Java “enum” objects. Accessing the enum’s “declaredClass” allows remote attackers to access the ClassLoader and execute arbitrary code. The same issue exists with PropertyUtilsBean.getNestedProperty(). Starting in versions 1.11.0 and 2.0.0-M2 a special BeanIntrospector suppresses the “declaredClass” property. Note that this new BeanIntrospector is enabled by default, but you can disable it to regain the old behavior; see section 2.5 of the user's guide and the unit tests.

This issue affects Apache Commons BeanUtils 1.x before 1.11.0, and 2.x before 2.0.0-M2.Users of the artifact commons-beanutils:commons-beanutils

1.x are recommended to upgrade to version 1.11.0, which fixes the issue.

Users of the artifact org.apache.commons:commons-beanutils2

2.x are recommended to upgrade to version 2.0.0-M2, which fixes the issue.

Database specific

{
    "nvd_published_at": "2025-05-28T14:15:34Z",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-284"
    ],
    "severity": "HIGH",
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2025-05-28T17:37:18Z"
}

References

Affected packages

Maven / commons-beanutils:commons-beanutils

Package

Name: commons-beanutils:commons-beanutils; View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl: pkg:maven/commons-beanutils/commons-beanutils

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

1.0

Fixed

1.11.0

Affected versions

1.*

1.0

1.2

1.3

1.4

1.4.1

1.5

1.6

1.6.1

1.7.0

1.8.0-BETA

1.8.0

1.8.1

1.8.2

1.8.3

1.9.0

1.9.1

1.9.2

1.9.3

1.9.4

1.10.0

1.10.1

Database specific

{
    "last_known_affected_version_range": "<= 1.10.1"
}

Maven / org.apache.commons:commons-beanutils2

Package

Name: org.apache.commons:commons-beanutils2; View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl: pkg:maven/org.apache.commons/commons-beanutils2

GHSA-wxr5-93ph-8wr9

Affected packages

Maven / commons-beanutils:commons-beanutils

Package

Affected ranges

Affected versions

1.*

Database specific

Maven / org.apache.commons:commons-beanutils2

Package

Affected ranges

Affected versions

2.*