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CVE-2019-10068

Exploitation confirmed. First attested on 2022-03-25 by CISA-ADP, CISA KEV, GCVE · kevintel, GCVE · shadowserver.

  • Published2019-03-26
  • Fixed in12.0.15 · 11.0.48 · 10.0.52
  • WeaknessCWE-502

Am I affected?

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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.

Timeline

dates in UTC
  1. 2019-03-2618:29CVE publishedNVD
  2. 2022-03-25Added to the CISA KEV catalogCISA KEV
  3. 2022-03-25Listed as exploited by GCVEGCVE
  4. 2022-03-25Exploitation first reportedCISA KEV
  5. 2025-02-0714:03SSVC exploitation set to activeCISA-ADP

Observed activity

isMalicious corpus · updated 2026-11-03 21:37 UTC
Indicators tagged with this CVE, per day0 indicators over 7 days
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Versions per branch

NVD
Kentico xperience
BranchAffectedFixed in
12.0≥ 12.0.0, < 12.0.1512.0.15
11.0≥ 11.0.0, < 11.0.4811.0.48
10.0≥ 10.0.0, < 10.0.5210.0.52
9.0≥ 9.0.0, ≤ 9.0.51no fix published

as publishedRanges as NVD and OSV publish them; a distribution’s build can be fixed under an older number.

Fix

  1. Update Kentico xperience to 12.0.15 · 11.0.48 · 10.0.52
  2. CISA’s required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.due 2022-04-15

Advisories and patches

Detection

read 2026-11-02 22:42 UTC
Nuclei template
available
ProjectDiscovery
Exploit-DB
no entry
Exploit-DB
Proof-of-concept repositories
1 repository, unverifiedcrukz404/CVE-2019-10068-PoC
PoC-in-GitHub
Metasploit modules
1 moduleexploit/windows/http/kentico_staging_syncserverrank: excellentModule metadata: Metasploit Framework, © Rapid7, Inc., BSD-3-Clause.
Metasploit Framework

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability

Date Added
2022-03-25
Patch Due Date
2022-04-15
Ransomware Use
Unknown
Required Action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Sources

Identifiers

Technical details

CVSS v3 Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Published
2019-03-26
Last Modified
2026-06-17
NVD status
Analyzed
GitHub Advisory
GHSA-f7w4-79f7-fhp3

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-10068?

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.

Is CVE-2019-10068 actively exploited?

Yes. CVE-2019-10068 is on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, meaning it has been confirmed as actively exploited in the wild. CISA requires federal agencies to patch by 2022-04-15.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2019-10068?

CVE-2019-10068 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (CRITICAL severity), with vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

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