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high 7.5

CVE-2019-14892 json

Polymorphic deserialization of malicious object in jackson-databind

published 6y ago modified last mo. also GHSA-cf6r-3wgc-h863 , EUVD-2020-0420

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
5.6%
EPSS 5.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 92%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • maven com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind 2.6.7.3, 2.8.11.5, 2.9.10
  • fasterxml jackson-databind 2.6.7.3, 2.8.11.5, 2.9.10
  • jackson-databind Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.10.0-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-14892

  • eap7-netty jboss enterprise application platform 7.2 4.1.42-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap
  • eap7-jberet jboss enterprise application platform 7.2 1.3.5-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap
  • eap7-wildfly jboss enterprise application platform 7.2 7.2.6-5.GA_redhat_00001.1.el8eap
  • eap7-undertow jboss enterprise application platform 7.2 2.0.28-2.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el8eap
  • eap7-weld-ejb jboss enterprise application platform 7.2 3.0.6-3.Final_redhat_00003.1.el8eap
  • eap7-weld-jta jboss enterprise application platform 7.2 3.0.6-3.Final_redhat_00003.1.el8eap
  • eap7-weld-web jboss enterprise application platform 7.2 3.0.6-3.Final_redhat_00003.1.el8eap
  • eap7-hibernate jboss enterprise application platform 7.2 5.3.14-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap

red hat advisories RHSA-2020:0161RHSA-2020:0160RHSA-2020:0159

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Vendor advisories

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red hat product security vex CVE-2019-14892 updated cvss 7.5

jackson-databind: Serialization gadgets in classes of the commons-configuration package

  • Red Hat BPM Suite 6 jackson-databind Red Hat JBoss A-MQ 6 jackson-databind Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 jackson-databind Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 jackson-databind Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4 jackson-databind
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes jackson-databind
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.9 elasticsearch-cloud-kubernetes, openshift-elasticsearch-plugin Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.10 elasticsearch-cloud-kubernetes, openshift-elasticsearch-plugin Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 openshift3/ose-logging-elasticsearch5 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift4/ose-logging-elasticsearch5
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton) opendaylight
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens) opendaylight Red Hat OpenStack Platform 14 (Rocky) opendaylight Red Hat Software Collections rh-maven35-jackson-databind, rh-maven35-jackson-databind-javadoc Red Hat streams for Apache Kafka jackson-databind
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat EAP-CD 19 Tech Preview
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:2333
  • Red Hat Data Grid 7.3.5
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:0729
  • Red Hat Decision Manager 7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:0899
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  • Red Hat Fuse 7.7.0
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:3192
  • Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:0164
  • Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.2 for RHEL 6 Server eap7-wildfly 7.2.6-5.GA_redhat_00001.1.el6eap, eap7-apache-cxf 3.2.11-1.redhat_00001.1.el6eap, eap7-jberet 1.3.5-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el6eap, eap7-netty 4.1.42-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el6eap, eap7-jackson-core 2.9.10-1.redhat_00003.1.el6eap, eap7-undertow 2.0.28-2.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el6eap, +71 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:0159
  • Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.2 for RHEL 7 Server eap7-wildfly 7.2.6-5.GA_redhat_00001.1.el7eap, eap7-apache-cxf 3.2.11-1.redhat_00001.1.el7eap, eap7-jberet 1.3.5-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap, eap7-netty 4.1.42-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap, eap7-jackson-core 2.9.10-1.redhat_00003.1.el7eap, eap7-undertow 2.0.28-2.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el7eap, +73 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:0160
  • Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.2 for RHEL 8 eap7-wildfly 7.2.6-5.GA_redhat_00001.1.el8eap, eap7-apache-cxf 3.2.11-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap, eap7-jberet 1.3.5-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap, eap7-netty 4.1.42-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap, eap7-jackson-core 2.9.10-1.redhat_00003.1.el8eap, eap7-undertow 2.0.28-2.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el8eap, +71 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:0161
  • Red Hat Process Automation 7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:0895
  • Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:0445
  • Red Hat Text-Only RHOAR
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:2067
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 jackson-databind, jackson-databind-javadoc Red Hat Satellite 6 candlepin, candlepin-selinux
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
total
Assessed
last mo.

Exploit prediction

5.62% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind
<2.6.7.3
>=2.7.0, <2.8.11.5
>=2.9.0, <2.9.10
2.6.7.3
2.8.11.5
2.9.10

Affected products

  • Red Hat jackson-databind

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

References

Sources

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