VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2018-8013

CVSS score9.8 CRITICAL
EPSS probability18.93%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2018-05-24
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

In Apache Batik 1.x before 1.10, when deserializing subclass of `AbstractDocument`, the class takes a string from the inputStream as the class name which then use it to call the no-arg constructor of the class. Fix was to check the class type before calling newInstance in deserialization.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-502: Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Primary references