Actively exploited · Published Mar 6, 2020 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2020-10189
Critical 9.8 Exploited
In plain English
A critical-severity unsafe deserialization in ManageEngine from Zoho. Attackers are actively exploiting it in the wild (listed by CISA on November 3, 2021). The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 99.9% (higher than 99.9% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: Metasploit, Nuclei, public proof-of-concept code. Apply updates per vendor instructions.
CISA guidance
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Federal agencies must remediate by May 3, 2022.
Official description
Zoho ManageEngine Desktop Central before 10.0.474 allows remote code execution because of deserialization of untrusted data in getChartImage in the FileStorage class. This is related to the CewolfServlet and MDMLogUploaderServlet servlets.
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-502 · Vector: CVSS:3.0/AC:L/AV:N/A:H/C:H/I:H/PR:N/S:U/UI:N
References
- https://srcincite.io/advisories/src-2020-0011/ x_refsource_MISC
- https://www.zdnet.com/article/zoho-zero-day-published-on-twitter/ x_refsource_MISC
- https://srcincite.io/pocs/src-2020-0011.py.txt x_refsource_MISC
- https://www.manageengine.com/products/desktop-central/remote-code-execution-vulnerability.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/156730/ManageEngine-Desktop-Central-Java-Deserialization.html x_refsource_MISC
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/502.html x_refsource_MISC
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2020-10189 government-resource