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Fencer Vulns
high 8.1

CVE-2020-36183 json

Unsafe Deserialization in jackson-databind

published 2021-01-06 5 y ago modified 2026-10-08 31 d ago also GHSA-9m6f-7xcq-8vf8 , EUVD-2021-2497

cvss
8.1
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.9%
EPSS 4.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 92%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

FasterXML jackson-databind 2.x before 2.9.10.8 mishandles the interaction between serialization gadgets and typing, related to org.docx4j.org.apache.xalan.lib.sql.JNDIConnectionPool.

Patch / fix

  • maven com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind 2.6.7.5, 2.9.10.8
  • fasterxml jackson-databind 2.6.7.5, 2.9.10.8
  • oracle jd_edwards_enterpriseone_orchestrator 9.2.5.3
  • oracle jd_edwards_enterpriseone_tools 9.2.5.3
  • jackson-databind Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.12.1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2020-36183

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-2020-36183 updated cvss 8.1

jackson-databind: mishandles the interaction between serialization gadgets and typing, related to org.docx4j.org.apache.xalan.lib.sql.JNDIConnectionPool

  • Red Hat BPM Suite 6 jackson-databind Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6 jackson-databind Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 jackson-databind Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 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, openshift4/ose-logging-elasticsearch5 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 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
    +17 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 jackson-databind, pki-jackson-databind 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 Data Grid 7 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 Expansion Pack jackson-databind Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 jackson-databind Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes jackson-databind Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift4/ose-metering-presto 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 Process Automation 7 jackson-databind Red Hat Satellite 6 candlepin, candlepin-selinux Red Hat Single Sign-On 7 jackson-databind Red Hat streams for Apache Kafka jackson-databind
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
total
Assessed
31 d ago

Exploit prediction

4.93% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • cowtowncoder.medium.com https://cowtowncoder.medium.com/on-jackson-cves-dont-panic-here-is-what-you-need-to-know-54cd0d6e8062 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

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
>=2.7.00, <2.9.10.8
>=2.0.0, <2.6.7.5
2.9.10.8
2.6.7.5

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.