CVE-2020-1964

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2020-04-16 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-502

Description

It was noticed that Apache Heron 0.20.2-incubating, Release 0.20.1-incubating, and Release v-0.20.0-incubating does not configure its YAML parser to prevent the instantiation of arbitrary types, resulting in a remote code execution vulnerabilities (CWE-502: Deserialization of Untrusted Data).

Affected products

Apache Software Foundation Apache Heron (Incubating): 0.20.0-incubating, 0.20.1-incubating, 0.20.2-incubating

References

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r16dd39f4180e4443ef4ca774a3a5a3d7ac69f91812c183ed2a99e959%40%3Cdev.heron.apache.org%3E
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https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r16dd39f4180e4443ef4ca774a3a5a3d7ac69f91812c183ed2a99e959%40%3Cdev.heron.apache.org%3E
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