CVE-2018-5968

HIGH8.1EPSS 2.0%

Deserialization of Untrusted Data in jackson-databind

Published: 6/30/2020Modified: 4/28/2026

Description

FasterXML jackson-databind through 2.8.11 and 2.9.x through 2.9.3 allows unauthenticated remote code execution because of an incomplete fix for the CVE-2017-7525 and CVE-2017-17485 deserialization flaws. This is exploitable via two different gadgets that bypass a blacklist.

Affected packages (2)

Debian/jackson-databindfrom 0, < 2.9.4-1
Maven/com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind>= 2.8.0, < 2.8.11.1

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	HIGH8.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References (19)

ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-5968
ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-5968
PATCHhttps://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-databind
WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0478
WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0479
WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0480
WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0481
WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1525
WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2858
WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3149
WEBhttps://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-databind/commit/038b471e2efde2e8f96b4e0be958d3e5a1ff1d0
WEBhttps://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-databind/commit/03ea0bec6293d4330b5ad19d1d62aca0e3cb6381
WEBhttps://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-databind/commit/454be8bb8c913be18298327a84ca45a280b61605
WEBhttps://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-databind/issues/1899
WEBhttps://github.com/GulajavaMinistudio/jackson-databind/pull/92/commits/038b471e2efde2e8f96b4e0be958d3e5a1ff1d05
WEBhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180423-0002
WEBhttps://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbhf03902en_us
WEBhttps://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4114
WEBhttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html