title: Potential Server Side Template Injection In Velocity
id: 16c86189-b556-4ee8-b4c7-7e350a195a4f
status: test
description: Detects exceptions in velocity template renderer, this most likely happens due to dynamic rendering of user input and may lead to RCE.
references:
- https://antgarsil.github.io/posts/velocity/
- https://www.wix.engineering/post/threat-and-vulnerability-hunting-with-application-server-error-logs
author: Moti Harmats
date: 2023-02-11
tags:
- attack.initial-access
- attack.t1190
logsource:
category: application
product: velocity
definition: 'Requirements: application error logs must be collected (with LOG_LEVEL=ERROR and above)'
detection:
keywords:
- 'ParseErrorException'
- 'VelocityException'
- 'TemplateInitException'
condition: keywords
falsepositives:
- Application bugs
- Missing .vm files
level: high