CVE-2013-4521

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2020-02-06 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-502

Description

RichFaces implementation in Nuxeo Platform 5.6.0 before HF27 and 5.8.0 before HF-01 does not restrict the classes for which deserialization methods can be called, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted serialized data. NOTE: this vulnerability may overlap CVE-2013-2165.

Affected products

Nuxeo Platform: 5.6.0, 5.6.0-hotfix01, 5.6.0-hotfix02, 5.6.0-hotfix03, 5.6.0-hotfix04, 5.6.0-hotfix05 (+22)

References

http://doc.nuxeo.com/display/public/ADMINDOC58/Nuxeo+Security+Hotfixes
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1027052
https://github.com/nuxeo/richfaces/commit/6cbad2a6dcb70d3e33a6ce5879b1a3ad79eb1aec
http://doc.nuxeo.com/display/public/ADMINDOC58/Nuxeo+Security+Hotfixes
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1027052
https://github.com/nuxeo/richfaces/commit/6cbad2a6dcb70d3e33a6ce5879b1a3ad79eb1aec

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