CVE-2017-20189 (GCVE-0-2017-20189)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-01-22 00:00
Modified
2025-11-03 21:44
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
In Clojure before 1.9.0, classes can be used to construct a serialized object that executes arbitrary code upon deserialization. This is relevant if a server deserializes untrusted objects.
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