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critical 9.8

CVE-2017-5929 json

QOS.ch Logback vulnerable to Deserialization of Untrusted Data

published 2017-03-13 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-vmfg-rjjm-rjrj , EUVD-2021-1412

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
7.5%
EPSS 7.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 94%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

QOS.ch Logback before 1.2.0 has a serialization vulnerability affecting the SocketServer and ServerSocketReceiver components.

Patch / fix

  • maven ch.qos.logback:logback-classic 1.2.0
  • maven ch.qos.logback:logback-core 1.2.0
  • qos logback 1.2.0
  • logback Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1:1.1.9-3

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-5929

  • v8 satellite capsule 6.4 1:3.14.5.10-19.el7sat
  • tfm satellite capsule 6.4, satellite 6.4 4.0-3.el7sat
  • kobo satellite capsule 6.4, satellite 6.4 0.5.1-1.el7sat
  • pulp satellite capsule 6.4, satellite 6.4 2.16.4.1-1.el7sat
  • gofer satellite capsule 6.4, satellite 6.4 2.12.1-1.el7sat
  • ostree satellite capsule 6.4, satellite 6.4 2017.1-2.atomic.el7
  • SOAPpy satellite capsule 6.4, satellite 6.4 0.11.6-17.el7
  • foreman satellite capsule 6.4, satellite 6.4 1.18.0.37-1.el7sat

red hat advisories RHSA-2018:2927

  • kibana OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8, OpenStack Cloud 8, HPE Helion OpenStack 8 4.6.6-3.9.2
  • grafana OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8, OpenStack Cloud 8, HPE Helion OpenStack 8 6.7.4-4.18.2
  • cassandra OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8, OpenStack Cloud 8, HPE Helion OpenStack 8 3.11.10-5.3.5
  • python-py OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8, OpenStack Cloud 8, HPE Helion OpenStack 8 1.4.34-3.3.3
  • crowbar-core OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 5.0+git.1622489449.a8e60e238-3.50.4
  • python-Django OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8, OpenStack Cloud 8, HPE Helion OpenStack 8 1.11.29-3.25.3
  • ardana-cobbler OpenStack Cloud 8, HPE Helion OpenStack 8 8.0+git.1614096566.e8c2b27-3.44.3
  • openstack-nova OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8, OpenStack Cloud 8, HPE Helion OpenStack 8 16.1.9~dev92-3.48.5

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2021:2554-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-5929 updated cvss 5.5

logback: Serialization vulnerability in SocketServer and ServerSocketReceiver

  • Red Hat JBoss Fuse Integration Service 2 logback-classic
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager logback-core
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Fuse 7.6.0
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:0983
  • Red Hat JBoss A-MQ 6.3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:1832
  • Red Hat JBoss BPMS 6.4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:1675
  • Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6.4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:1676
  • Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6.3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:1832
  • Red Hat Satellite 6.4 tfm 4.0-3.el7sat, kobo 0.5.1-1.el7sat, SOAPpy 0.11.6-17.el7, candlepin 2.4.8-1.el7, gofer 2.12.1-1.el7sat, liquibase 3.1.0-1.el7, +382 more Red Hat Satellite Capsule 6.4 tfm 4.0-3.el7sat, kobo 0.5.1-1.el7sat, SOAPpy 0.11.6-17.el7, gofer 2.12.1-1.el7sat, katello 3.7.0-8.el7sat, pulp 2.16.4.1-1.el7sat, +216 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:2927
show 1 more
  • Red Hat Satellite 6.4 libwebsockets 2.1.0-3.el7 Red Hat Satellite Capsule 6.4 libwebsockets 2.1.0-3.el7
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

7.50% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven ch.qos.logback:logback-classic
<1.2.0
1.2.0
maven ch.qos.logback:logback-core
<1.2.0
1.2.0

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.