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Fencer Vulns
high 8.1

CVE-2020-24750 json

Unsafe Deserialization in jackson-databind

published 2020-09-17 6 y ago modified 2026-10-08 31 d ago also GHSA-qjw2-hr98-qgfh , EUVD-2021-2570

cvss
8.1
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
7.3%
EPSS 7.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 94%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

FasterXML jackson-databind 2.x before 2.9.10.6 mishandles the interaction between serialization gadgets and typing, related to com.pastdev.httpcomponents.configuration.JndiConfiguration.

Patch / fix

  • maven com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind 2.6.7.5, 2.9.10.6
  • fasterxml jackson-databind 2.6.7.5, 2.9.10.6
  • oracle blockchain_platform 21.1.2
  • jackson-databind Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.12.1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2020-24750

  • rh-maven35-jackson-databind RHEL 3 SOFTWARE_COLLECTIONS 2.7.6-2.11.el7
  • rh-maven35-jackson-databind-javadoc RHEL 3 SOFTWARE_COLLECTIONS 2.7.6-2.11.el7

red hat advisories RHSA-2020:4173

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2020-24750 updated cvss 8.1

jackson-databind: Serialization gadgets in com.pastdev.httpcomponents.configuration.JndiConfiguration

  • Red Hat BPM Suite 6 jackson-databind Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6 jackson-databind Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 7 jackson-databind Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 jackson-databind
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 openshift3/ose-logging-elasticsearch5
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift4/ose-metering-hive, openshift4/ose-metering-hadoop Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton) opendaylight
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens) opendaylight
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Logging 5.0 openshift-logging/elasticsearch6-rhel8 v5.0.3-1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2021:1515
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.6 openshift4/ose-logging-elasticsearch6 v4.6.0-202104161407.p0
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2021:1230
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.7 openshift4/ose-metering-presto v4.7.0-202102110027.p0
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:5635
  • Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) rh-maven35-jackson-databind 2.7.6-2.11.el7, rh-maven35-jackson-databind-javadoc 2.7.6-2.11.el7 Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.6) rh-maven35-jackson-databind 2.7.6-2.11.el7, rh-maven35-jackson-databind-javadoc 2.7.6-2.11.el7 Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.7) rh-maven35-jackson-databind 2.7.6-2.11.el7, rh-maven35-jackson-databind-javadoc 2.7.6-2.11.el7 Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) rh-maven35-jackson-databind 2.7.6-2.11.el7, rh-maven35-jackson-databind-javadoc 2.7.6-2.11.el7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:4173
show 1 more
  • Red Hat A-MQ Clients 2 jackson-databind Red Hat OpenShift Logging 5.0 openshift-logging/fluentd-rhel8 v5.0.3-1, openshift-logging/kibana6-rhel8 v5.0.3-1, openshift-logging/eventrouter-rhel8 v5.0.3-1, openshift-logging/logging-curator5-rhel8 v5.0.3-1, openshift-logging/elasticsearch-proxy-rhel8 v5.0.3-1, openshift-logging/elasticsearch-rhel8-operator v5.0.3-2, +3 more Red Hat build of Quarkus jackson-databind Red Hat Data Grid 8 jackson-databind Red Hat Decision Manager 7 jackson-databind Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 jackson-databind, jackson-databind-javadoc
    +16 more products
    Red Hat Fuse 7 jackson-databind Red Hat Integration Camel K 1 jackson-databind Red Hat Integration Service Registry jackson-databind Red Hat JBoss A-MQ 6 jackson-databind Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 jackson-databind Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 jackson-databind Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Continuous Delivery jackson-databind Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 jackson-databind Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes jackson-databind Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.6 openshift4/ose-ptp v4.6.0-202104151245.p0, openshift4/ose-sriov-cni v4.6.0-202104151245.p0, openshift4/ose-ghostunnel v4.6.0-202104151245.p0, openshift4/ose-descheduler v4.6.0-202104151245.p0, openshift4/ose-ptp-operator v4.6.0-202104151245.p0, openshift4/ose-egress-router v4.6.0-202104151245.p0, +40 more Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.7 openshift4/ose-ptp v4.7.0-202102110027.p0, openshift4/ose-sriov-cni v4.7.0-202102110027.p0, openshift4/ose-ghostunnel v4.7.0-202102110027.p0, openshift4/ose-descheduler v4.7.0-202102110027.p0, openshift4/ose-oauth-proxy v4.7.0-202102110027.p0, openshift4/ose-ptp-operator v4.7.0-202102110027.p0, +40 more Red Hat Process Automation 7 jackson-databind Red Hat Satellite 6 candlepin, candlepin-selinux Red Hat Single Sign-On 7 jackson-databind Red Hat Virtualization 4 rhvm, ovirt-engine, ovirt-engine-setup, ovirt-engine-tools, ovirt-engine-backend, ovirt-engine-restapi, +14 more Red Hat streams for Apache Kafka jackson-databind
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
total
Assessed
31 d ago

Exploit prediction

7.33% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.1 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind
>=2.0, <2.6.7.5
>=2.7.0, <2.9.10.6
2.6.7.5
2.9.10.6

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.