CVE-2019-10068 is a vulnerability in Kentico
Published on March 26, 2019
An issue was discovered in Kentico 12.0.x before 12.0.15, 11.0.x before 11.0.48, 10.0.x before 10.0.52, and 9.x versions. Due to a failure to validate security headers, it was possible for a specially crafted request to the staging service to bypass the initial authentication and proceed to deserialize user-controlled .NET object input. This deserialization then led to unauthenticated remote code execution on the server where the Kentico instance was hosted.
Known Exploited Vulnerability
This Kentico Xperience Deserialization of Untrusted Data Vulnerability is part of CISA's list of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities. Kentico contains a failure to validate security headers. This deserialization can led to unauthenticated remote code execution.
The following remediation steps are recommended / required by April 15, 2022: Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2019-10068 is exploitable with network access, and does not require authorization privileges or user interaction. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. This vulnerability is known to be actively exploited by threat actors in an automatable fashion. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be critical as this vulnerability has a high impact to the confidentiality, integrity and availability of this component.
Weakness Type
What is a Marshaling, Unmarshaling Vulnerability?
The application deserializes untrusted data without sufficiently verifying that the resulting data will be valid.
CVE-2019-10068 has been classified to as a Marshaling, Unmarshaling vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2019-10068
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Exploit Probability
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