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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-1964

It was noticed that Apache Heron 0.20.2-incubating, Release 0.20.1-incubating, and Release v-0.20.0-incubating does not configure its YAML parser to prevent the instantiation of arbitrary types, resulting in a remote code execution vulnerabilities (CWE-502: Deserialization of Untrusted Data).

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1 Nov 2026, 07:17 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2020-1964

core-osv · Original source

Published 16 Apr 2020, 19:15 UTC

It was noticed that Apache Heron 0.20.2-incubating, Release 0.20.1-incubating, and Release v-0.20.0-incubating does not configure its YAML parser to prevent the instantiation of arbitrary types, resulting in a remote code execution vulnerabilities (CWE-502: Deserialization of Untrusted Data).

osv:CVE-2020-1964
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-1964",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "title": "CVE-2020-1964",
    "summary": "It was noticed that Apache Heron 0.20.2-incubating, Release 0.20.1-incubating, and Release v-0.20.0-incubating does not configure its YAML parser to prevent the instantiation of arbitrary types, resulting in a remote code execution vulnerabilities (CWE-502: Deserialization of Untrusted Data).",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-1964",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "critical",
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      "aliases": [
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        "GHSA-hjgm-f7vx-m5g7"
      ],
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          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
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            "0.19.0.14",
            "0.19.0.13",
            "0.19.0.12",
            "0.19.0.11"
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          }
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:51.128009031Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd43ae18588fd7bdb375be63bc95a651aab319ced6306759e1237ce67%40%3Cdev.ignite.apache.org%3E",
        "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/re7b43cf8333ee30b6589e465f72a6ed4a082222612d1a0fdd30beb94%40%3Cdev.ignite.apache.org%3E",
        "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/re7b43cf8333ee30b6589e465f72a6ed4a082222612d1a0fdd30beb94%40%3Cuser.ignite.apache.org%3E",
        "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf032a13a4711f88c0a2c0734eecbee1026cc1b6cde27d16a653f8755%40%3Cdev.ignite.apache.org%3E",
        "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r16dd39f4180e4443ef4ca774a3a5a3d7ac69f91812c183ed2a99e959%40%3Cdev.heron.apache.org%3E"
      ],
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  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 437416,
  "published_at": "2020-04-16T19:15:28.29+00:00"
}