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Fencer Vulns
high 8.1

CVE-2020-14060 json

Deserialization of untrusted data in Jackson Databind

published 2020-06-14 6 y ago modified 2026-10-08 31 d ago also GHSA-j823-4qch-3rgm , EUVD-2020-0495

cvss
8.1
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
8.5%
EPSS 8.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 95%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

FasterXML jackson-databind 2.x before 2.9.10.5 mishandles the interaction between serialization gadgets and typing, related to oadd.org.apache.xalan.lib.sql.JNDIConnectionPool (aka apache/drill).

Patch / fix

  • maven com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind 2.9.10.5
  • fasterxml jackson-databind 2.9.10.5
  • jackson-databind Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.11.1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2020-14060

  • jackson-databind Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 2.4.2-3ubuntu0.1~esm2

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2020-14060

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • foreman satellite capsule 6.7, satellite 6.7 1.24.1.24-1.el7sat
  • pulp-rpm satellite capsule 6.7, satellite 6.7 2.21.0.6-1.el7sat
  • candlepin satellite 6.7 2.9.28-1.el7sat
  • satellite satellite capsule 6.7, satellite 6.7 6.7.2-1.el7sat
  • foreman-cli satellite 6.7 1.24.1.24-1.el7sat
  • foreman-ec2 satellite 6.7 1.24.1.24-1.el7sat
  • foreman-gce satellite 6.7 1.24.1.24-1.el7sat
  • foreman-ovirt satellite 6.7 1.24.1.24-1.el7sat

red hat advisories RHBA-2020:3255RHBA-2020:1494

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-2020-14060 updated cvss 8.1

jackson-databind: serialization in oadd.org.apache.xalan.lib.sql.JNDIConnectionPool

  • Red Hat BPM Suite 6 jackson-databind
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 jackson-databind, jackson-databind-javadoc
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat JBoss A-MQ 6 jackson-databind Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6 jackson-databind Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6 jackson-databind Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 7 jackson-databind Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 jackson-databind Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 jackson-databind
    +1 more products
    Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 jackson-databind
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 openshift3/ose-logging-elasticsearch5 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift4/ose-logging-elasticsearch5
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • 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 Software Collections rh-maven35-jackson-databind, rh-maven35-jackson-databind-javadoc
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Decision Manager 7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:3196
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  • Red Hat Fuse 7.7.0
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:3192
  • Red Hat Process Automation 7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:3197
  • Red Hat Satellite 6.6 satellite 6.6.3-1.el7sat, candlepin 2.6.16-1.el7sat, foreman 1.22.0.39-2.el7sat, satellite-cli 6.6.3-1.el7sat, foreman-cli 1.22.0.39-2.el7sat, foreman-ec2 1.22.0.39-2.el7sat, +17 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHBA-2020:1494
  • Red Hat Satellite 6.7 satellite 6.7.2-1.el7sat, candlepin 2.9.28-1.el7sat, foreman 1.24.1.24-1.el7sat, pulp-rpm 2.21.0.6-1.el7sat, satellite-cli 6.7.2-1.el7sat, foreman-cli 1.24.1.24-1.el7sat, +27 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHBA-2020:3255
  • Red Hat Satellite Capsule 6.6 satellite 6.6.3-1.el7sat, foreman 1.22.0.39-2.el7sat, satellite-common 6.6.3-1.el7sat, satellite-capsule 6.6.3-1.el7sat, satellite-debug-tools 6.6.3-1.el7sat
    fixed: vendor fix RHBA-2020:1494
  • Red Hat Satellite Capsule 6.7 satellite 6.7.2-1.el7sat, foreman 1.24.1.24-1.el7sat, pulp-rpm 2.21.0.6-1.el7sat, satellite-common 6.7.2-1.el7sat, satellite-capsule 6.7.2-1.el7sat, pulp-rpm-plugins 2.21.0.6-1.el7sat, +6 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHBA-2020:3255
  • Red Hat A-MQ Clients 2 jackson-databind Red Hat build of Quarkus jackson-databind Red Hat Data Grid 8 jackson-databind Red Hat Integration Camel K 1 jackson-databind Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 jackson-databind Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Continuous Delivery jackson-databind
    +3 more products
    Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes jackson-databind Red Hat Single Sign-On 7 jackson-databind 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

8.54% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95% 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
>=2.9.0, <2.9.10.5
2.9.10.5

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.