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Ubuntu: USN-4741-1 (CVE-2017-15095): Jackson vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Nov 16, 2017
Added
Feb 19, 2021
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

A deserialization flaw was discovered in the jackson-databind in versions before 2.8.10 and 2.9.1, which could allow an unauthenticated user to perform code execution by sending the maliciously crafted input to the readValue method of the ObjectMapper. This issue extends the previous flaw CVE-2017-7525 by blacklisting more classes that could be used maliciously.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-libjackson-json-java
Title
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