THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2020-5245
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2020-5245

Dropwizard Validation vulnerability

CVSS
7.9
EPSS
3.1%
EPSS pct
86th
Exploited
No known
Dropwizard-Validation before 1.3.19, and 2.0.2 may allow arbitrary code execution on the host system, with the privileges of the Dropwizard service account, by injecting arbitrary Java Expression Language expressions when using the self-validating feature. The issue has been fixed in dropwizard-validation 1.3.19 and 2.0.2.
Affected vendor
Dropwizard
Affected product
Dropwizard Validation
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2020-02-24

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, high attack complexity, requiring low privileges, user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, low impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.1% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 86% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2020-5245

  • Confirm whether Dropwizard Dropwizard Validation is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2020-5245.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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