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Advisory details: gitlab / maven/com.fasterxml.jackson.core/jackson-databind/CVE-2019-12814
Advisory ID gitlab/maven/com.fasterxml.jackson.core/jackson-databind/CVE-2019-12814
Aliases CVE-2019-12814
Summary Information Disclosure A Polymorphic Typing issue was discovered in FasterXML jackson-databind. When Default Typing is enabled (either globally or for a specific property) for an externally exposed JSON endpoint and the service has JDOM in the classpath, an attacker can send a specifically crafted JSON message that allows them to read arbitrary local files on the server.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 0.0
Risk
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Introduced and Fixed Package Commit Patches Package Commit Patches Details
Weaknesses (3)
CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
System Score Found at
cvssv2 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/maven/com.fasterxml.jackson.core/jackson-databind/CVE-2019-12814.yml
cvssv3 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/maven/com.fasterxml.jackson.core/jackson-databind/CVE-2019-12814.yml
Reference id Reference type URL
https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-databind/issues/2341
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/06/msg00019.html
CVE-2019-12814 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-12814
No exploits are available.

No EPSS data available for this advisory.

Patch URL
There are no known patches.
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N Found at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/maven/com.fasterxml.jackson.core/jackson-databind/CVE-2019-12814.yml
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

functional

unproven

proof_of_concept

not_defined

local

adjacent_network

network

high

medium

low

multiple

single

none

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N Found at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/maven/com.fasterxml.jackson.core/jackson-databind/CVE-2019-12814.yml
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none

Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-08-27T20:29:53Z/

Decision: Track

Source URL: https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/blob/develop/2019/12xxx/CVE-2019-12814.json

Source Advisory: vulnrichment/CVE-2019-12814

View SSVC decision tree 
[{'Exploitation': 'none'},
 {'Automatable': 'no'},
 {'Technical Impact': 'partial'},
 {'Mission Prevalence': 'minimal'},
 {'Public Well-being Impact': 'material'},
 {'Mission & Well-being': 'medium'}]