What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2019-17570

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 49.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2020-01-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-502

Description

An untrusted deserialization was found in the org.apache.xmlrpc.parser.XmlRpcResponseParser:addResult method of Apache XML-RPC (aka ws-xmlrpc) library. A malicious XML-RPC server could target a XML-RPC client causing it to execute arbitrary code. Apache XML-RPC is no longer maintained and this issue will not be fixed.

Affected products

• Apache Xml-Rpc: 3.1, 3.1.1, 3.1.2, 3.1.3
• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 16.04, 18.04
• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0, 10.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 31, 32
• RedHat Software Collections: 1.0

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/01/24/2
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0310
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-17570%3B
• https://github.com/orangecertcc/security-research/security/advisories/GHSA-x2r6-4m45-m4jp
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/846551673bbb7ec8d691008215384bcef03a3fb004d2da845cfe88ee%401390230951%40%3Cdev.ws.apache.org%3E
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/01/msg00033.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/I3QCRLJYQRGVTIYF4BXYRFSF3ONP3TBF/
• https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Feb/8
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-26
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4496-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4619
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/01/24/2

Get alerted when CVE-2019-17570 or the next vulnerability affects your stack