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CVE-2017-7525

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 37.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-02-06 · updated 2026-10-08
• Weakness: CWE-184

Description

A deserialization flaw was discovered in the jackson-databind, versions before 2.6.7.1, 2.7.9.1 and 2.8.9, which could allow an unauthenticated user to perform code execution by sending the maliciously crafted input to the readValue method of the ObjectMapper.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
• FasterXML jackson-databind: before 2.6.7.1; from 2.7.0 before 2.7.9.1; from 2.8.0 before 2.8.9; 2.9.0-prerelease1, 2.9.0-prerelease2 — fixed in 2.6.7.1, 2.7.9.1, 2.8.9
• NetApp Oncommand Balance: all versions
• NetApp Oncommand Performance Manager: all versions
• NetApp Oncommand Shift: all versions
• NetApp SnapCenter: all versions
• Oracle Banking Platform: 2.5.0, 2.6.0, 2.6.1, 2.6.2
• Oracle Corporation Communications Billing and Revenue Management: 7.5, 12.0
• Oracle Communications Communications Policy Management: from 12.0 through 12.5.2
• Oracle Communications Diameter Signaling Route: before 8.3 — fixed in 8.3
• Oracle Communications Instant Messaging Server: 10.0.1, 10.0.1.2.0
• Oracle Enterprise Manager For Virtualization: 13.2.2, 13.2.3, 13.3.1
• Oracle Corporation Financial Services Analytical Applications Infrastructure: 8.0.2.0.0, 8.0.3.0.0, 8.0.4.0.0, 8.0.5.0.0, 8.0.6.0.0, 8.0.7.0.0
• Oracle Global Lifecycle Management Opatchauto: before 12.2.0.1.14 — fixed in 12.2.0.1.14
• Oracle Corporation Primavera Unifier: from 17.1 through 17.12; 16.1, 16.2, 18.8
• Oracle Utilities Advanced Spatial And Operational Analytics: 2.7.0.1
• Oracle Corporation Oracle WebCenter Portal: 12.2.1.3.0
• Red Hat JBoss EAP: 6.0.0, 6.4.0, 7.0, 7.1
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18: 4.1, 3.11
• RedHat Virtualization: 4.0
• RedHat Virtualization Host: 4.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: FasterXML jackson-databind 2.6.7.1, 2.7.9.1, 2.8.9; Oracle Communications Diameter Signaling Route 8.3; Oracle Global Lifecycle Management Opatchauto 12.2.0.1.14. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2018-3678067.html
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2018-4258247.html
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99623
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039744
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039947
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040360
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1834
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1835
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1836
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1837
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1839

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