CVE-2019-10074 — An RCE is possible by entering Freemarker markup in an Apache OFBiz Form Widget

An RCE is possible by entering Freemarker markup in an Apache OFBiz Form Widget textarea field when encoding has been disabled on such a field. This was the case for the Customer Request "story" input in the Order Manager application. Encoding should not be disabled wit

01What is this vulnerability?

An RCE is possible by entering Freemarker markup in an Apache OFBiz Form Widget textarea field when encoding has been disabled on such a field. This was the case for the Customer Request "story" input in the Order Manager application. Encoding should not be disabled without good reason and never within a field that accepts user input. Mitigation: Upgrade to 16.11.06 or manually apply the…

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Apache	OFBiz	OFBiz 16.11.01 to 16.11.05

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2019-09-11T20:38:56.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-04T22:10:09.294Z

09References

• s.apache.org — https://s.apache.org/r49vw
• lists.apache.org — https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a02aaa4c19dfd520807cf6b106b71aad0131a6543f7…