Fix Unsafe Deserialization

sdk/cosmos/azure-cosmos-kafka-connect/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 #### Breaking Changes
 
 #### Bugs Fixed
+* Added filtering to deserialization of `"azure.cosmos.client.metadata.caches.snapshot"` - See [PR 47594](https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-java/pull/47594)
 
 #### Other Changes
 

sdk/cosmos/azure-cosmos-kafka-connect/src/main/java/com/azure/cosmos/kafka/connect/implementation/KafkaCosmosUtils.java

@@ -12,20 +12,31 @@
 import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
 import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InvalidClassException;
 import java.io.ObjectInputStream;
 import java.io.ObjectOutputStream;
+import java.io.ObjectStreamClass;
 import java.util.Base64;
 
 public class KafkaCosmosUtils {
     private static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(KafkaCosmosUtils.class);
+    private static final String ALLOWED_CLASSES = "CosmosClientMetadataCachesSnapshot";
 
     public static CosmosClientMetadataCachesSnapshot getCosmosClientMetadataFromString(String metadataCacheString) {
         if (StringUtils.isNotEmpty(metadataCacheString)) {
             byte[] inputByteArray = Base64.getDecoder().decode(metadataCacheString);
             try (ObjectInputStream objectInputStream =
-                     new ObjectInputStream(new ByteArrayInputStream(inputByteArray))) {
-
-                return (CosmosClientMetadataCachesSnapshot) objectInputStream.readObject();
+                     new ObjectInputStream(new ByteArrayInputStream(inputByteArray)) {
+                @Override
+                protected Class<?> resolveClass(ObjectStreamClass desc) throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException {
+                    // Whitelist only allowed classes to prevent rce from arbitrary classes
+                    if (!ALLOWED_CLASSES.contains(desc.getName())) {
+                        throw new InvalidClassException("Unauthorized deserialization attempt", desc.getName());
+                    }
+                    return super.resolveClass(desc);
+                }
+            }){
+            return (CosmosClientMetadataCachesSnapshot) objectInputStream.readObject();
             } catch (IOException | ClassNotFoundException e) {
                 LOGGER.warn("Failed to deserialize cosmos client metadata cache snapshot");
                 return null;

sdk/cosmos/azure-cosmos-kafka-connect/src/test/java/com/azure/cosmos/kafka/connect/CosmosSinkConnectorTest.java

@@ -29,14 +29,21 @@
 import org.testng.annotations.Test;
 import reactor.core.publisher.Mono;
 
+import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.ObjectInputStream;
+import java.io.ObjectOutputStream;
+import java.io.Serializable;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.Base64;
 import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.UUID;
 import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger;
+import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicReference;
 import java.util.stream.Collectors;
 
 import static org.assertj.core.api.AssertionsForClassTypes.assertThat;
@@ -214,6 +221,23 @@ public void taskConfigsForClientMetadataCachesSnapshot() {
         }
     }
 
+    @Test(groups = "unit")
+    public void evilDeserializationIsBlocked() throws Exception {
+        AtomicReference<String> payload = new AtomicReference<>("Test RCE payload");
+        Evil evil = new Evil(payload);
+        ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
+        try (ObjectOutputStream oos = new ObjectOutputStream(baos)) {
+            oos.writeObject(evil);
+        }
+        String evilBase64 = Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(baos.toByteArray());
+
+        // Through KafkaCosmosUtils: should be blocked and return null
+        CosmosClientMetadataCachesSnapshot snapshot =
+            KafkaCosmosUtils.getCosmosClientMetadataFromString(evilBase64);
+        assertThat(snapshot).isNull();
+        assertThat(payload.get()).isEqualTo("Test RCE payload");
+    }
+
     @Test(groups = "unit")
     public void misFormattedConfig() {
         CosmosSinkConnector sinkConnector = new CosmosSinkConnector();
@@ -471,4 +495,26 @@ public static class SinkConfigs {
                 true)
         );
     }
+
+    public static class Evil implements Serializable {
+        private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
+
+        private final AtomicReference<String> payload;
+
+        public Evil(AtomicReference<String> payload) {
+            this.payload = payload;
+        }
+
+        private void readObject(ObjectInputStream in) throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException {
+            in.defaultReadObject();
+            System.out.println("Payload executed");
+            payload.set("Payload executed");
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public String toString() {
+            return "Evil{payload='" + payload.get() + "'}";
+        }
+    }
+
 }