{"id":"CVE-2020-5245","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2020-5245","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T23:28:47.022Z","title":"Dropwizard-Validation before 1.3.19, and 2.0.2 may allow arbitrary code execution on the host system, with the privileges of the Dropwizard service account, by injecting arbitrary Java Expression Language expressions when using the self-validating…","description":"Dropwizard-Validation before 1.3.19, and 2.0.2 may allow arbitrary code execution on the host system, with the privileges of the Dropwizard service account, by injecting arbitrary Java Expression Language expressions when using the self-validating feature.\n\nThe issue has been fixed in dropwizard-validation 1.3.19 and 2.0.2.","published":"2020-02-24T18:15:22.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T03:21:07.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"security-advisories@github.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":8.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-74"],"affected":["dropwizard/dropwizard validation","oracle/blockchain platform"],"epss":{"score":0.03006,"percentile":0.87299,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (3.01%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://beanvalidation.org/2.0/spec/#validationapi-message-defaultmessageinterpolation","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security-advisories@github.com"},{"url":"https://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/validator/6.1/reference/en-US/html_single/#section-interpolation-with-message-expressions","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security-advisories@github.com"},{"url":"https://docs.oracle.com/javaee/7/tutorial/jsf-el.htm","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security-advisories@github.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/dropwizard/dropwizard/commit/28479f743a9d0aab6d0e963fc07f3dd98e8c8236","source":"security-advisories@github.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/dropwizard/dropwizard/commit/d87d1e4f8e20f6494c0232bf8560c961b46db634","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security-advisories@github.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/dropwizard/dropwizard/pull/3157","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security-advisories@github.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/dropwizard/dropwizard/pull/3160","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security-advisories@github.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/dropwizard/dropwizard/security/advisories/GHSA-3mcp-9wr4-cjqf","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security-advisories@github.com"},{"url":"https://beanvalidation.org/2.0/spec/#validationapi-message-defaultmessageinterpolation","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/validator/6.1/reference/en-US/html_single/#section-interpolation-with-message-expressions","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://docs.oracle.com/javaee/7/tutorial/jsf-el.htm","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/dropwizard/dropwizard/commit/28479f743a9d0aab6d0e963fc07f3dd98e8c8236","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/dropwizard/dropwizard/commit/d87d1e4f8e20f6494c0232bf8560c961b46db634","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/dropwizard/dropwizard/pull/3157","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/dropwizard/dropwizard/pull/3160","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/dropwizard/dropwizard/security/advisories/GHSA-3mcp-9wr4-cjqf","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-5245","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}