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Vulnerability · Published Jan 6, 2021 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2020-36188

High 8.1

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in the jackson-databind package (Debian). There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 8.8% (higher than 95% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code. Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)8.1High
Exploit odds (30 days)8.8%top 4.8% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack tooling1Public PoC

Official description

FasterXML jackson-databind 2.x before 2.9.10.8 mishandles the interaction between serialization gadgets and typing, related to com.newrelic.agent.deps.ch.qos.logback.core.db.JNDIConnectionSource.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12jackson-databind2.12.1-1DEBIAN-CVE-2020-36188
Debian:13jackson-databind2.12.1-1DEBIAN-CVE-2020-36188
Debian:14jackson-databind2.12.1-1DEBIAN-CVE-2020-36188
Mavencom.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind2.9.10.8GHSA-f9xh-2qgp-cq57
Mavencom.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind2.6.7.5GHSA-f9xh-2qgp-cq57
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSjackson-databindno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-36188
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSjackson-databindno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-36188
Ubuntu:25.10jackson-databindno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-36188
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSjackson-databindno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-36188
Ubuntu:26.10jackson-databindno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-36188

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a n/a n/a

References