An RCE is possible by entering Freemarker markup in an Apache OFBiz Form Widget textarea field when encoding has been disabled on such a fi…

published 2019-09-11 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-2132

cvss: 9.8; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 3.4%; EPSS 3.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 88%
public exploits: 0; none known

An RCE is possible by entering Freemarker markup in an Apache OFBiz Form Widget textarea field when encoding has been disabled on such a field. This was the case for the Customer Request "story" input in the Order Manager application. Encoding should not be disabled without good reason and never within a field that accepts user input. Mitigation: Upgrade to 16.11.06 or manually apply the following commit on branch 16.11: r1858533

Exploit prediction

3.39% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

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

Affected products

Apache OFBiz

Classification

Weakness

CWE-74 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component
CWE-116 Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output

References

s.apache.org /r49vw
mailing-list, vendor-advisory
lists.apache.org /thread.html/a02aaa4c19dfd520807cf6b106b71aad0131a6543f7f60802ae71ec2%40%3Cnotifications.ofbiz.apache.org%3E
mailing-list

Sources

CVE List CVE-2019-10074
NVD CVE-2019-10074

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Summary