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GHSA-53WX-PR6Q-M3J5

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-05-06 12:30 – Updated: 2025-05-06 16:46

Summary

Apache Parquet Java: Potential malicious code execution from trusted packages in the parquet-avro module when reading an Avro schema from a Parquet file metadata

Details

Schema parsing in the parquet-avro module of Apache Parquet 1.15.0 and previous versions allows bad actors to execute arbitrary code.

While 1.15.1 introduced a fix to restrict untrusted packages, the default setting of trusted packages still allows malicious classes from these packages to be executed.

The exploit is only applicable if the client code of parquet-avro uses the "specific" or the "reflect" models deliberately for reading Parquet files. ("generic" model is not impacted)

Users are recommended to upgrade to 1.15.2 or set the system property "org.apache.parquet.avro.SERIALIZABLE_PACKAGES" to an empty string on 1.15.1. Both are sufficient to fix the issue.

Severity

7.1 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:A/VC:L/VI:H/VA:H/SC:L/SI:H/SA:H/S:N/RE:M/U:Amber

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  "modified": "2025-05-06T16:46:15Z",
  "published": "2025-05-06T12:30:23Z",
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      "type": "ADVISORY",
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CVE-2025-46762 (GCVE-0-2025-46762)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-06 09:08 – Updated: 2026-02-26 18:28

Title

Apache Parquet Java: Potential malicious code execution from trusted packages in the parquet-avro module when reading an Avro schema from a Parquet file metadata

Summary

Schema parsing in the parquet-avro module of Apache Parquet 1.15.0 and previous versions allows bad actors to execute arbitrary code. While 1.15.1 introduced a fix to restrict untrusted packages, the default setting of trusted packages still allows malicious classes from these packages to be executed. The exploit is only applicable if the client code of parquet-avro uses the "specific" or the "reflect" models deliberately for reading Parquet files. ("generic" model is not impacted) Users are recommended to upgrade to 1.15.2 or set the system property "org.apache.parquet.avro.SERIALIZABLE_PACKAGES" to an empty string on 1.15.1. Both are sufficient to fix the issue.

Severity

7.1 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:A/VC:L/VI:H/VA:H/SC:L/SI:H/SA:H/S:N/RE:M/U:Amber

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-05-07 03:55 UTC

CWE

CWE-73 - External Control of File Name or Path

Assigner

apache CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard B 76/100 over 1090 records in the last 180 days details

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://lists.apache.org/thread/t7724lpvl110xsbgq…	vendor-advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/02/1

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Apache Software Foundation	Apache Parquet Java	Affected: 0 , ≤ 1.15.1 (semver)

Credits

Andrew Pikler David Handermann Nándor Kollár

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