Deserialization of Untrusted Data in jackson-databind - CVE-2019-14892

 

Deserialization of Untrusted Data in jackson-databind - CVE-2019-14892

Published: March 9, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU25833
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-14892
CWE-ID: CWE-502
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: FasterXML
Affected software:
jackson-databind

Detailed vulnerability description

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

The vulnerability exists due to insecure input validation when processing serialized data of a malicious object using commons-configuration 1 and 2 JNDI classes. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.


How to mitigate CVE-2019-14892

Install updates from vendor's website.

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