CVE-2020-26238

Critical vulnerability found in cron-utils

Published Nov 24, 2020 CVSS 3.1 · 7.9 High EPSS 4.2% KEV · Not listed
Description
Cron-utils is a Java library to parse, validate, migrate crons as well as get human readable descriptions for them. In cron-utils before version 9.1.3, a template Injection vulnerability is present. This enables attackers to inject arbitrary Java EL expressions, leading to unauthenticated Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability. Only projects using the @Cron annotation to validate untrusted Cron expressions are affected. This issue was patched in version 9.1.3.

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-1466 Cron-utils is a Java library to parse, validate, migrate crons as well as get human readable descriptions for them. In cron-utils before version 9.1.3, a template Injection vulnerability is present. This enables attackers to inject arbitrary Java EL expressions, leading to unauthenticated Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability. Only projects using the @Cron annotation to validate untrusted Cron expressions are affected. This issue was patched in version 9.1.3.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-pfj3-56hm-jwq5 Template injection in cron-utils
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https://github.com/jmrozanec/cron-utils/commit/4cf373f7352f5d95f0bf6512af8af326b31c835e cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/jmrozanec/cron-utils/issues/461 cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/jmrozanec/cron-utils/security/advisories/GHSA-pfj3-56hm-jwq5 cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r390bb7630b7ea8f02bf7adbbe69c0ae8b562c527d663c543d965f959%40%3Cgitbox.hive.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r432a69a1a85cbcb1f1bad2aa0fbfce0367bf894bf917f6ed7118e7f0%40%3Cissues.hive.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r50e1b5544c37e408ed7e9a958b28237b1cb9660ba2b3dba46f343e23%40%3Cissues.hive.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r5f601d15292e3302ad0ae0e89527029546945b1cd5837af7e838d354%40%3Cdev.hive.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r71083c759dc627f198571b3d48b6745fe798b1d53c34f7ef8de9e7dd%40%3Cissues.hive.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r737406bc17d49ffe8fe6a8828d390ee0a02e45e5a5b4f931180b9a93%40%3Cissues.hive.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r855aead591697dc2e85faf66c99036e49f492431940b78d4e6d895b5%40%3Cgitbox.hive.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r96937fc9c82f3201b59311c067e97bce71123944f93102169a95bf5c%40%3Cissues.hive.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9ae9a9fb1c8e2bf95c676e7e4cd06aa04f0a3a8a9ec1a6b787afb00f%40%3Cissues.hive.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ra9e81244d323898dde3c979dd7df6996e4037d14a01b6629ea443548%40%3Cissues.hive.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-26238 cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-26238 cve-icon
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
Aug 4, 2024, 3:56 PM
Reserved
Oct 1, 2020, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Nov 25, 2020, 12:15 AM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 3:07 AM
Severity
Important
Public date
Nov 24, 2020, 12:00 AM