CVE-2019-17570

high-risk
Published 2020-01-23

An untrusted deserialization was found in the org.apache.xmlrpc.parser.XmlRpcResponseParser:addResult method of Apache XML-RPC (aka ws-xmlrpc) library. A malicious XML-RPC server could target a XML-RPC client causing it to execute arbitrary code. Apache XML-RPC is no longer maintained and this issue will not be fixed.

Do I need to act?

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70.5% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — higher than 29% of all CVEs
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
9
CVSS 9.8/10 Critical
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (12)

Affected Vendors

Debian Redhat Apache Canonical Fedoraproject

References (22)

Mailing List http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/01/24/2
Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0310
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-17570%3B
Exploit https://github.com/orangecertcc/security-research/security/advisories/GHSA-x2r6-...
Mailing List https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/846551673bbb7ec8d691008215384bcef03a3fb004d...
Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/01/msg00033.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedorapro...
Mailing List https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Feb/8
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-26
Patch https://usn.ubuntu.com/4496-1/
Third Party Advisory https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4619
Mailing List http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/01/24/2
Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0310
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-17570%3B
Exploit https://github.com/orangecertcc/security-research/security/advisories/GHSA-x2r6-...
Mailing List https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/846551673bbb7ec8d691008215384bcef03a3fb004d...
Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/01/msg00033.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedorapro...
Mailing List https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Feb/8
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-26
and 2 more references
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high-risk
Severity 32/34 · Critical
Exploitability 19/34 · Moderate
Exposure 17/34 · Moderate