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critical 9.8

CVE-2020-12835 in the critical feed json

An issue was discovered in SmartBear ReadyAPI SoapUI Pro 3.2.5.

published 6y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2020-5117

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
13.3%
EPSS 13.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in SmartBear ReadyAPI SoapUI Pro 3.2.5. Due to unsafe use of an Java RMI based protocol in an unsafe configuration, an attacker can inject malicious serialized objects into the communication, resulting in remote code execution in the context of a client-side Network Licensing Protocol component.

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Exploit prediction

13.29% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • seclists.org http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/May/38 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • packetstormsecurity.com http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/157772/Protection-Licensing-Toolkit-ReadyAPI-3.2.5-Code-Execution-Deserialization.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • syss.de https://www.syss.de/fileadmin/dokumente/Publikationen/Advisories/SYSS-2019-039.txt referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

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

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data

References

Sources

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