Protection Mechanism Failure in Apache Parquet Java - CVE-2025-46762

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Protection Mechanism Failure in Apache Parquet Java - CVE-2025-46762

Published: May 2, 2025


Vulnerability identifier: #VU108164
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 7.5 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-46762
CWE-ID: CWE-693
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation when parsing Avro schema from a Parquet file metadata. A remote attacker can trick the victim into installing a malicious package and execute arbitrary code on the system.

Note, the default setting of trusted packages still allows malicious classes from these packages to be executed.


Affected software

Apache Parquet Java
watsonx.data
Watson Query on Cloud Pak for Data
Data Virtualization (DV) on Cloud Pak for Data (CPD)
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition
User Entity Behavior Analytics
Db2 Big SQL

How to mitigate CVE-2025-46762

Install updates from vendor's website.

Apache Parquet Java - update to 1.15.2
watsonx.data - update to 2.2.1
Data Virtualization (DV) on Cloud Pak for Data (CPD) - update to 3.2.1
User Entity Behavior Analytics - update to 5.0.2
Db2 Big SQL - update to 8.2.1

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