An issue was discovered in FasterXML jackson-databind prior to 2.7.9.4, 2.8.11.2, and 2.9.6. When Default Typing is enabled (either…

Description

An issue was discovered in FasterXML jackson-databind prior to 2.7.9.4, 2.8.11.2, and 2.9.6. When Default Typing is enabled (either globally or for a specific property), the service has the Oracle JDBC jar in the classpath, and an attacker can provide an LDAP service to access, it is possible to make the service execute a malicious payload.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

8.9% · top 4.8% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-502 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-502 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

Affected packages

From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.

• Mavencom.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databindGHSA-6wqp-v4v6-c87c (opens in a new tab)

References (37)

• RHSA-2019:0782 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHSA-2019:0877 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHBA-2019:0959 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHSA-2019:1107 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHSA-2019:1108 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHSA-2019:1106 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHSA-2019:1140 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• DSA-4452 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• 20190527 [SECURITY] [DSA 4452-1] jackson-databind security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• RHSA-2019:1782 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHSA-2019:1797 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHSA-2019:1822 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHSA-2019:1823 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHSA-2019:2804 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHSA-2019:2858 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• [lucene-issues] 20191004 [GitHub] [lucene-solr] marungo opened a new pull request #925: SOLR-13818: Upgrade jackson to 2.10.0 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• RHSA-2019:3002 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHSA-2019:3140 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• [drill-dev] 20191017 Dependencies used by Drill contain known vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• RHSA-2019:3149 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• [drill-dev] 20191021 [jira] [Created] (DRILL-7416) Updates required to dependencies to resolve potential security vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• [drill-issues] 20191021 [jira] [Created] (DRILL-7416) Updates required to dependencies to resolve potential security vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• RHSA-2019:3892 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHSA-2019:4037 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2019-5072801.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2019-5072835.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZEDLDUYBSTDY4GWDBUXGJNS2RFYTFVRC/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-16/materials/us-16-Munoz-A-Journey-From-JNDI-LDAP-Manipulation-To-RCE.pdf (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105659 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-databind/issues/2058 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-databind/commit/28badf7ef60ac3e7ef151cd8e8ec010b8479226a (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190530-0003/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisory GHSA-6wqp-v4v6-c87c (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 15 Oct 2026, 17:22 UTC.