CVE-2026-40473
When a Camel route uses camel-mina as a TCP or UDP consumer and requests conversion to ObjectInput (for example via getBody(ObjectInput.class) or @Body ObjectInput), an attacker sending a crafted serialized Java object over the network to the MINA…
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.87%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
The camel-mina component's MinaConverter.toObjectInput(IoBuffer) type converter wraps an IoBuffer in a java.io.ObjectInputStream without applying any ObjectInputFilter or class-loading restrictions. When a Camel route uses camel-mina as a TCP or UDP consumer and requests conversion to ObjectInput (for example via getBody(ObjectInput.class) or @Body ObjectInput), an attacker sending a crafted serialized Java object over the network to the MINA consumer port can trigger arbitrary code execution in the context of the application during readObject(). This issue affects Apache Camel: from 3.0.0 before 4.14.6, from 4.15.0 before 4.18.2, from 4.19.0 before 4.20.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 4.20.0, which fixes the issue. If users are on the 4.14.x LTS releases stream, then they are suggested to upgrade to 4.14.6. If users are on the 4.18.x releases stream, then they are suggested to upgrade to 4.18.2.
- CVSS 3.1
- 8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.87% probability · 57th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-502
- Affected
- apache/camel
- Source
- security@apache.org
References
- https://camel.apache.org/security/CVE-2026-40473.htmlVendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/04/26/8Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-40473
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2463180
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-40473.json
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.