Description
Dropwizard-Validation before 1.3.19, and 2.0.2 may allow arbitrary code execution on the host system, with the privileges of the Dropwizard service account, by injecting arbitrary Java Expression Language expressions when using the self-validating feature. The issue has been fixed in dropwizard-validation 1.3.19 and 2.0.2.
Remediation
References
https://github.com/dropwizard/dropwizard/pull/3160
https://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/validator/6.1/reference/en-US/html_single/#section-interpolation-with-message-expressions
https://github.com/dropwizard/dropwizard/commit/d87d1e4f8e20f6494c0232bf8560c961b46db634
https://github.com/dropwizard/dropwizard/security/advisories/GHSA-3mcp-9wr4-cjqf
https://github.com/dropwizard/dropwizard/pull/3157
https://beanvalidation.org/2.0/spec/#validationapi-message-defaultmessageinterpolation
https://docs.oracle.com/javaee/7/tutorial/jsf-el.htm
https://github.com/dropwizard/dropwizard/commit/28479f743a9d0aab6d0e963fc07f3dd98e8c8236