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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-1948

This vulnerability can affect all Dubbo users stay on version 2.7.6 or lower. An attacker can send RPC requests with unrecognized service name or method name along with some malicious parameter payloads. When the malicious parameter is deserialized, it will execute some malicious code. More details can be found below.

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1 Nov 2026, 07:17 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2020-1948

core-osv · Original source

Published 14 Jul 2020, 14:15 UTC

This vulnerability can affect all Dubbo users stay on version 2.7.6 or lower. An attacker can send RPC requests with unrecognized service name or method name along with some malicious parameter payloads. When the malicious parameter is deserialized, it will execute some malicious code. More details can be found below.

osv:CVE-2020-1948
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-1948",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "title": "CVE-2020-1948",
    "summary": "This vulnerability can affect all Dubbo users stay on version 2.7.6 or lower. An attacker can send RPC requests with unrecognized service name or method name along with some malicious parameter payloads. When the malicious parameter is deserialized, it will execute some malicious code. More details can be found below.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-1948",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "critical",
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        "CVE-2020-1948",
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        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
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          "versions": [
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            "dubbo-2.6.6",
            "dubbo-2.6.1",
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          ],
          "database_specific": {
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          }
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:51.367811989Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rbaa41711b3e7a8cd20e9013737423ddd079ddc12f90180f86e76523c%40%3Csecurity.dubbo.apache.org%3E",
        "https://nsfocusglobal.com/apache-dubbo-remote-code-execution-vulnerability-cve-2020-1948-threat-alert/"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
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    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 437461,
  "published_at": "2020-07-14T14:15:17.79+00:00"
}