CVE-2019-17570

critical

Description

An untrusted deserialization was found in the org.apache.xmlrpc.parser.XmlRpcResponseParser:addResult method of Apache XML-RPC (aka ws-xmlrpc) library. A malicious XML-RPC server could target a XML-RPC client causing it to execute arbitrary code. Apache XML-RPC is no longer maintained and this issue will not be fixed.

References

Advisories
More

https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4619

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4496-1/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-26

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Feb/8

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/I3QCRLJYQRGVTIYF4BXYRFSF3ONP3TBF/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/01/msg00033.html

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0310

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/01/24/2

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6vwp-35w3-xph8

https://github.com/fbeasts/xmlrpc-common-deserialization

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/846551673bbb7ec8d691008215384bcef03a3fb004d2da845cfe88ee%401390230951%40%3Cdev.ws.apache.org%3E

https://github.com/orangecertcc/security-research/security/advisories/GHSA-x2r6-4m45-m4jp

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-17570%3B

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-01-23

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.49285