Xperience
CVE-2019-10068
CRITICAL
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A08:2025 - Software or Data Integrity Failures
ASVS 5.0
V1 - Encoding and Sanitization Safe deserialization, type allowlists
MITRE ATT&CK
2 techniques across 2 tactics: Execution, Initial Access The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Impact | CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, low complexity, no privileges required, no user interaction not required. Public proof-of-concept exploit code is available. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A remote attacker could execute arbitrary code through malicious serialized objects by sending crafted requests to the affected application. No authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability. |
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Alert meAnalysisAI
An issue was discovered in Kentico 12.0.x before 12.0.15, 11.0.x before 11.0.48, 10.0.x before 10.0.52, and 9.x versions. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.
RemediationAI
No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Avoid deserializing untrusted data. Use safe serialization formats (JSON). Implement integrity checks and type allowlists.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
This vulnerability is classified as Deserialization of Untrusted Data (CWE-502), which allows attackers to execute arbitrary code through malicious serialized objects. An issue was discovered in Kentico 12.0.x before 12.0.15, 11.0.x before 11.0.48, 10.0.x before 10.0.52, and 9.x versions. Due to a failure to validate security headers, it was possible for a specially crafted request to the staging service to bypass the initial authentication and proceed to deserialize user-controlled .NET object input. This deserialization then led to unauthenticated remote code execution on the server where the Kentico instance was hosted. Affected products include: Kentico Xperience. Version information: before 12.0.15.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Primary rating from NVD · only source for this CVE.
CVSS VectorNVD
Lifecycle Timeline
2DescriptionNVD
An issue was discovered in Kentico 12.0.x before 12.0.15, 11.0.x before 11.0.48, 10.0.x before 10.0.52, and 9.x versions. Due to a failure to validate security headers, it was possible for a specially crafted request to the staging service to bypass the initial authentication and proceed to deserialize user-controlled .NET object input. This deserialization then led to unauthenticated remote code execution on the server where the Kentico instance was hosted.
Threat Intelligence Overview
NVD
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CISA KEV
EPSS
How this decision was reached
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SSVC AssessmentENISA
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Attack Technique
Insecure deserialization occurs when an application converts serialized data (a stream of bytes representing an object's state) back into a living object without proper validation.
Remote Code Execution represents the critical moment when an attacker successfully runs arbitrary code on a target system without physical access.
Affected Products (CPE)NVD
Kentico Xperience contains a second authentication bypass in the Staging Sync Server through None-type password handling
Kentico Xperience through 13.0.172 contains an authentication bypass in the Staging Sync Server through empty SHA1 usern
Remote code execution in Kentico Xperience CMS versions through 13.0.178 allows authenticated administrators to upload a
Kentico 9.0 through 11.0 has a stack-based buffer overflow via the SqlName, SqlPswd, Database, UserName, or Password fie
Kentico v10.0.42 allows Global Administrators to read the cleartext SMTP Password by navigating to the SMTP configuratio
Arbitrary code execution vulnerability in Kentico 9 through 11 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary op
Kentico Xperience before 13.0.181 allows authenticated users to distribute malicious content (for stored XSS) via certai
The Kentico Xperience application does not fully validate or filter files uploaded via the multiple-file upload function
The Kentico Xperience CMS version 13.0 - 13.0.43 is vulnerable to a persistent Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability
Kentico before 12.0.50 allows file uploads in which the Content-Type header is inconsistent with the file extension, lea
Kentico 11 through 12 lets attackers upload and explore files without authentication via the cmsmodules/medialibrary/for
An unsafe reflection vulnerability in Kentico Xperience allows an unauthenticated attacker to kill the current process,
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