Critical
Security advisory
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).
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-1964
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:17 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:51.128009031Z",
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"references": [
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"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/re7b43cf8333ee30b6589e465f72a6ed4a082222612d1a0fdd30beb94%40%3Cdev.ignite.apache.org%3E",
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"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",
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"published_at": "2020-04-16T19:15:28.29+00:00"
}