Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution in Apache JMeter
Critical severity
GitHub Reviewed
Published
Mar 7, 2019
to the GitHub Advisory Database
•
Updated Jan 9, 2023
Description
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
Mar 7, 2019
Reviewed
Jun 16, 2020
Last updated
Jan 9, 2023
Unauthenticated RCE is possible when JMeter is used in distributed mode (-r or -R command line options). Attacker can establish a RMI connection to a jmeter-server using RemoteJMeterEngine and proceed with an attack using untrusted data deserialization. This only affect tests running in Distributed mode. Note that versions before 4.0 are not able to encrypt traffic between the nodes, nor authenticate the participating nodes so upgrade to JMeter 5.1 is also advised.
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