CVE-2019-10068
Critical 9.8 Exploited in the wild (KEV)
Confirmed active exploitation — CISA KEV catalog
- Name
- Kentico Xperience Deserialization of Untrusted Data Vulnerability
- Added to catalog
- Remediation due date (US federal)
- Required action
- Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Description
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.
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
-
9.8 (CRITICAL)
Score source: NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - EPSS — exploit probability
- 95% (percentile: 100) as of 1 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-502
Affected products
kentico: xperience
References
- https://devnet.kentico.com/download/hotfixes#securityBugs-v12 Release NotesVendor Advisory
- https://devnet.kentico.com/download/hotfixes#securityBugs-v12 Release NotesVendor Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/157588/Kentico-CMS-12.0.14-Remote-Command-… ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/157588/Kentico-CMS-12.0.14-Remote-Command-… ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2019… US Government Resource