CVE-2020-10101 — An issue was discovered in Zammad 3

An issue was discovered in Zammad 3.0 through 3.2. The WebSocket server crashes when messages in non-JSON format are sent by an attacker. The message format is not properly checked and parsing errors not handled. This leads to a crash of the service process.

01What is this vulnerability?

An issue was discovered in Zammad 3.0 through 3.2. The WebSocket server crashes when messages in non-JSON format are sent by an attacker. The message format is not properly checked and parsing errors not handled. This leads to a crash of the service process.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

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: 2020-03-05T00:37:40.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-04T10:50:57.889Z

09References

• zammad.com — https://zammad.com/news/security-advisory-zaa-2020-06