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CVE-2019-14892: Polymorphic deserialization of malicious object in jackson-databind
- Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 5.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2020-03-02 · updated 2026-10-08
- Weakness: CWE-200
Description
A flaw was discovered in jackson-databind in versions before 2.9.10, 2.8.11.5 and 2.6.7.3, where it would permit polymorphic deserialization of a malicious object using commons-configuration 1 and 2 JNDI classes. An attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code.
Affected products
- Apache Software Foundation Apache Geode: 1.12.0
- FasterXML jackson-databind: from 2.0.0 before 2.6.7.3; from 2.7.0 before 2.8.11.5; from 2.9.0 before 2.9.10 — fixed in 2.6.7.3, 2.8.11.5, 2.9.10
- RedHat Decision Manager: 7.0
- RedHat Jboss Data Grid: 7.0.0
- Red Hat JBoss EAP: 7.0
- RedHat Jboss Fuse: 7.0.0
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18: 4.3
- RedHat Process Automation: 7.0
- Maven Com.Fasterxml.Jackson.Core:Jackson-Databind: before 2.6.7.3; from 2.7.0 before 2.8.11.5; from 2.9.0 before 2.9.10; 2.0.0, 2.0.0-RC1, 2.0.0-RC2, 2.0.0-RC3, 2.0.1, 2.0.2 (+112) — fixed in 2.6.7.3, 2.8.11.5, 2.9.10
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: FasterXML jackson-databind 2.6.7.3, 2.8.11.5, 2.9.10; Maven Com.Fasterxml.Jackson.Core:Jackson-Databind 2.6.7.3, 2.8.11.5, 2.9.10. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0729
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14892
- https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-databind/issues/2462
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r1b103833cb5bc8466e24ff0ecc5e75b45a705334ab6a444e64e840a0%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf1bbc0ea4a9f014cf94df9a12a6477d24a27f52741dbc87f2fd52ff2%40%3Cissues.geode.apache.org%3E
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200904-0005/
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0729
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14892
- https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-databind/issues/2462
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r1b103833cb5bc8466e24ff0ecc5e75b45a705334ab6a444e64e840a0%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf1bbc0ea4a9f014cf94df9a12a6477d24a27f52741dbc87f2fd52ff2%40%3Cissues.geode.apache.org%3E
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200904-0005/
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