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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2018-11779

In Apache Storm versions 1.1.0 to 1.2.2, when the user is using the storm-kafka-client or storm-kafka modules, it is possible to cause the Storm UI daemon to deserialize user provided bytes into a Java class.

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1 Nov 2026, 07:55 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2018-11779

core-osv · Original source

Published 26 Jul 2019, 00:15 UTC

In Apache Storm versions 1.1.0 to 1.2.2, when the user is using the storm-kafka-client or storm-kafka modules, it is possible to cause the Storm UI daemon to deserialize user provided bytes into a Java class.

osv:CVE-2018-11779
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-11779",
  "method": "structured",
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    "summary": "In Apache Storm versions 1.1.0 to 1.2.2, when the user is using the storm-kafka-client or storm-kafka modules, it is possible to cause the Storm UI daemon to deserialize user provided bytes into a Java class.",
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      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:31:00.455085819Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/3e4f704c4bd9296405a07a0290b8cbb6cbf5046e277efe6d93280a98%40%3Cuser.storm.apache.org%3E"
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 439551,
  "published_at": "2019-07-26T00:15:10.84+00:00"
}