A vulnerability was found in Hibernate-Validator. The SafeHtml validator annotation fails to properly sanitize payloads consisting of…

Description

A vulnerability was found in Hibernate-Validator. The SafeHtml validator annotation fails to properly sanitize payloads consisting of potentially malicious code in HTML comments and instructions. This vulnerability can result in an XSS attack.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

2.2% · top 18% 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: Medium 6.5.

Weakness

• CWE-79 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-79 and its CVEs

Affected products

• Hibernate · hibernate-validator

  • affected 6.0.0.Alpha1 – ≤ 6.0.17.Final
  • affected 6.1.0.Alpha1 – ≤ 6.1.0.Alpha6
  • unaffected 6.0.18.Final – ≤ 6.0.*
  • unaffected 6.1.0.Final – ≤ *

Affected packages

From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.

• Mavenorg.hibernate.validator:hibernate-validatorGHSA-m8p2-495h-ccmh (opens in a new tab)
• Mavenorg.hibernate:hibernate-validatorGHSA-m8p2-495h-ccmh (opens in a new tab)

References (19)

• [accumulo-notifications] 20200108 [GitHub] [accumulo] milleruntime opened a new pull request #1469: Update hibernate-validator. Fixes CVE-2019-10219 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• [accumulo-notifications] 20200109 [GitHub] [accumulo] milleruntime closed pull request #1469: Update hibernate-validator. Fixes CVE-2019-10219 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• [accumulo-notifications] 20200109 [GitHub] [accumulo] milleruntime commented on issue #1469: Update hibernate-validator. Fixes CVE-2019-10219 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• RHSA-2020:0164 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHSA-2020:0159 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHSA-2020:0160 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHSA-2020:0161 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHSA-2020:0445 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• [portals-pluto-dev] 20210714 [jira] [Created] (PLUTO-791) Upgrade to hibernate-validator-6.0.20.Final due to CVE-2020-10693 and CVE-2019-10219 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• [portals-pluto-dev] 20210714 [jira] [Closed] (PLUTO-791) Upgrade to hibernate-validator-6.0.20.Final due to CVE-2020-10693 and CVE-2019-10219 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• [portals-pluto-scm] 20210714 [portals-pluto] branch master updated: PLUTO-791 Upgrade to hibernate-validator-6.0.20.Final due to CVE-2020-10693 and CVE-2019-10219 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• Upstream fix commit (opens in a new tab)patch
• Upstream fix commit (opens in a new tab)patch
• Proof of Concept (opens in a new tab)exploit
• Proof of Concept (opens in a new tab)exploit
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-10219 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220210-0024/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-validator/commit/124b7dd6d9a4ad24d4d49f74701f05a13e56ceee (opens in a new tab)

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-m8p2-495h-ccmh (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2019-10219](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2019-10219.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2019-10219)

Record last updated 8 Oct 2026, 21:24 UTC.