CVE-2017-12633

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-11-15 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-502

Description

The camel-hessian component in Apache Camel 2.x before 2.19.4 and 2.20.x before 2.20.1 is vulnerable to Java object de-serialisation vulnerability. De-serializing untrusted data can lead to security flaws.

Affected products

Apache Software Foundation Apache Camel: from 2.0.0 before 2.19.4; from 2.20.0 before 2.20.1 — fixed in 2.19.4, 2.20.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Apache Software Foundation Apache Camel 2.19.4, 2.20.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://camel.apache.org/security-advisories.data/CVE-2017-12633.txt.asc
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101874
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0319
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CAMEL-11923
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/2318d7f7d87724d8716cd650c21b31cb06e4d34f6d0f5ee42f28fdaf%40%3Ccommits.camel.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b4014ea7c5830ca1fc28edd5cafedfe93ad4af2d9e69c961c5def31d%40%3Ccommits.camel.apache.org%3E
http://camel.apache.org/security-advisories.data/CVE-2017-12633.txt.asc
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101874
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0319
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CAMEL-11923
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/2318d7f7d87724d8716cd650c21b31cb06e4d34f6d0f5ee42f28fdaf%40%3Ccommits.camel.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b4014ea7c5830ca1fc28edd5cafedfe93ad4af2d9e69c961c5def31d%40%3Ccommits.camel.apache.org%3E

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