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High

Insecure Deserialization in Apache Commons Beanutils

  • Disclosed: 15.06.2020
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 13:19

In Apache Commons Beanutils 1.9.2, a special BeanIntrospector class was added which allows suppressing the ability for an attacker to access the classloader via the class property available on all Java objects. We, however were not using this by default characteristic of the PropertyUtilsBean.

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
Java / Kotlin (Maven) commons-beanutils:commons-beanutils < 1.9.4 1.9.4

References

CVSS score 7.3/10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-502
Platform
Java / Kotlin (Maven)
Package
commons-beanutils:commons-beanutils
Disclosed
15.06.2020
Updated
11.10.2026 13:19

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-6phf-73q6-gh87 - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: commons-beanutils:commons-beanutils

All published vulnerabilities of this package (Java / Kotlin (Maven)), newest first. Shows whether this is a one-off slip or a package that needs watching.

Total entries
3
First → latest
06.2020 05.2025
Without a fix
0
Exploited in attacks
0

Severity breakdown

  • High 3

Disclosures per year

  1. Apache Commons Improper Access Control vulnerability
    High · 8.8 CVE-2025-48734 >= 1.0, < 1.11.0 1.11.0
  2. Insecure Deserialization in Apache Commons Beanutils this entry
    High · 7.3 CVE-2019-10086 < 1.9.4 1.9.4
  3. Arbitrary code execution in Apache Commons BeanUtils
    High CVE-2014-0114 >= 1.8.0, < 1.9.4 1.9.4

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