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Fencer Vulns
high 7.3

CVE-2024-47561 json

Apache Avro Java SDK: Arbitrary Code Execution when reading Avro schema (Java SDK)

published 2024-10-03 2 y ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also EUVD-2024-3126 , GHSA-r7pg-v2c8-mfg3 , JLSEC-2026-1374

cvss
7.3
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.3%
EPSS 3.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 88%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Schema parsing in the Java SDK of Apache Avro 1.11.3 and previous versions allows bad actors to execute arbitrary code. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 1.11.4  or 1.12.0, which fix this issue.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.apache.avro:avro 1.11.4
  • Apache Software Foundation Apache Avro Java SDK 1.11.4
  • apache avro 1.11.4
  • eap7-avro jboss enterprise application platform 7.4 1.11.4-1.redhat_00001.1.el7eap
  • eap7-avro jboss enterprise application platform 7.4 1.11.4-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap
  • eap7-avro jboss enterprise application platform 7.4 1.11.4-1.redhat_00001.1.el9eap
  • eap7-avro jboss enterprise application platform eus 7.1 1.7.6-2.redhat_00003.1.ep7.el7
  • eap7-wildfly jboss enterprise application platform eus 7.1 7.1.8-2.GA_redhat_00002.1.ep7.el7
  • eap7-xalan-j2 jboss enterprise application platform eus 7.1 2.7.1-26.redhat_00015.1.ep7.el7
  • eap7-apache-cxf jboss enterprise application platform eus 7.1 3.1.16-3.SP1_redhat_00001.1.ep7.el7
  • eap7-h2database jboss enterprise application platform eus 7.1 1.4.197-2.redhat_00005.1.ep7.el7

red hat advisories RHSA-2024:10208RHSA-2024:10207RHSA-2024:7811

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-2024-47561 updated cvss 8.8

apache-avro: Schema parsing may trigger Remote Code Execution (RCE)

  • Red Hat build of Apache Camel for Spring Boot 3 avro
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Fuse 7 avro Red Hat Single Sign-On 7 avro
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat build of Apache Camel 4 for Quarkus 3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:7972
  • Red Hat build of Apache Camel 4.4.3 for Spring Boot
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:8064
  • Red Hat build of Apicurio Registry 2.6.5 GA
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:7861
  • Red Hat build of Quarkus Native builder
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:7676
  • Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.4 for RHEL 7 Server eap7-avro 1.11.4-1.redhat_00001.1.el7eap Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.4 for RHEL 8 eap7-avro 1.11.4-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.4 for RHEL 9 eap7-avro 1.11.4-1.redhat_00001.1.el9eap
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:7811
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform avro 1.11.4.redhat-00001
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:10933
show 5 more
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:7812
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 EUS for RHEL 7 Server eap7-avro 1.7.6-2.redhat_00003.1.ep7.el7, eap7-xalan-j2 2.7.1-26.redhat_00015.1.ep7.el7, eap7-wildfly 7.1.8-2.GA_redhat_00002.1.ep7.el7, eap7-h2database 1.4.197-2.redhat_00005.1.ep7.el7, eap7-bouncycastle 1.68.0-1.redhat_00005.1.ep7.el7, eap7-apache-cxf 3.1.16-3.SP1_redhat_00001.1.ep7.el7, +11 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:10208
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 EUS for RHEL 7 Server eap7-avro 1.7.6-8.redhat_00003.1.el7eap, eap7-wss4j 2.3.3-2.redhat_00001.1.el7eap, eap7-xalan-j2 2.7.1-38.redhat_00015.1.el7eap, eap7-wildfly 7.3.11-4.GA_redhat_00002.1.el7eap, eap7-h2database 1.4.197-3.redhat_00004.1.el7eap, eap7-wss4j-policy 2.3.3-2.redhat_00001.1.el7eap, +41 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:10207
  • Red Hat RHINT Camel-K 1.10.8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:8339
  • Red Hat A-MQ Clients 2 avro Red Hat Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift org.elasticsearch-elasticsearch Red Hat build of Debezium 2 avro Red Hat Build of Keycloak avro Red Hat Data Grid 8 avro Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 7 avro
    +3 more products
    Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform pom.xml, c3 0.6.0, c3 0.7.1, d3 5.9.2, fs 2.1.2, ip 2.0.0, +1561 more Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 avro Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8 avro
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

3.26% 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
CNA 4.0 9.2 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CISA ADP 3.1 7.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
GitHub 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CNA 4.0 9.2 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
CNA 3.1 7.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
OSV 3.1 7.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.apache.avro:avro
<1.11.4
1.11.4
julia Avro_jll
all versions
 no fix listed

Affected products

  • Apache Software Foundation Apache Avro Java SDK
  • apache avro

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.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.