SCA: security update for com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind (GHSA-cmfg-87vq-g5g4)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 422533

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- A Polymorphic Typing issue was discovered in FasterXML jackson-databind 2.x through 2.9.9. When Default
Typing is enabled (either globally or for a specific property) for an externally exposed JSON endpoint and
the service has JDOM 1.x or 2.x jar in the classpath, an attacker can send a specifically crafted JSON
message that allows them to read arbitrary local files on the server. (CVE-2019-12814)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cmfg-87vq-g5g4

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 422533

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/28/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.69

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-12814

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/17/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/19/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-12814

cwe: CWE-502