Security Advisory: Apache Commons Text Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2022-42889)

Background:

On 13th Oct 2022 the Apache Software Foundation released a security advisory mentioning the patch and mitigation details to address a remote code execution vulnerability CVE-2022-42889. Same vulnerability has created too much buzz in the last several hours, especially after PoC showcasing verification of the vulnerability was published.

Apache Commons Text library contains a set of Java classes that contain algorithms for measuring and manipulating strings. It helps in performing variable interpolation provided by attributes such as "$prefix:name" that …

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