[SECURITY] New security advisory CVE-2017-12634 released for Apache Camel

[Andrea Cosentino <ancosen1985 () yahoo com>]

A new security advisory has been released for Apache Camel, that is fixed in
the recent 2.19.4 and 2.20.1 releases:

 CVE-2017-12634: Apache Camel's Castor unmarshalling operation is vulnerableto Remote Code Execution attacks

The full text of the advisory is the following:

CVE-2017-12634: Apache Camel's Castor unmarshalling operation is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution attacks 

Severity: MEDIUM

Vendor: The Apache Software Foundation

Versions Affected: Camel 2.19.0 to 2.19.3 and Camel 2.20.0. The unsupported Camel 2.x (2.18 and earlier) versions may 
be also affected.

Description: Apache Camel's camel-castor component is vulnerable to Java objectde-serialisation vulnerability. 
De-serializing untrusted data can lead to security flaws.

Mitigation: 2.19.x users should upgrade to 2.19.4, 2.20.0 users should upgrade to 2.20.1. 

The JIRA ticket: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CAMEL-11929 refers to the various commits that resovoled the 
issue, and have more details.

Credit: This issue was discovered by Man Yue Mo <mmo at semmle dot com> from Semmle/lgtm.com.On behalf of the Apache 
Camel PMC

On behalf of the Apache Camel PMC

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Andrea Cosentino 
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Apache Camel PMC Member
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