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CVE-2018-11779

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-07-26 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-502

Description

In Apache Storm versions 1.1.0 to 1.2.2, when the user is using the storm-kafka-client or storm-kafka modules, it is possible to cause the Storm UI daemon to deserialize user provided bytes into a Java class.

Affected products

• Apache Software Foundation Apache Storm: from 1.1.0 through 1.2.2

References

• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/3e4f704c4bd9296405a07a0290b8cbb6cbf5046e277efe6d93280a98%40%3Cuser.storm.apache.org%3E
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/3e4f704c4bd9296405a07a0290b8cbb6cbf5046e277efe6d93280a98%40%3Cuser.storm.apache.org%3E

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