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CVE-2020-9493 (GCVE-0-2020-9493)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-06-16 07:30 – Updated: 2024-08-04 10:34
VLAI
Title
Java deserialization in Chainsaw
Summary
A deserialization flaw was found in Apache Chainsaw versions prior to 2.1.0 which could lead to malicious code execution.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-502 - Deserialization of Untrusted Data
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Apache Software Foundation Apache Chainsaw Affected: Apache Chainsaw , < 2.1.0 (custom)
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Credits
This issue was reported by @kingkk
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  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.


Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.


Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.