CVE-2026-57527
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Summary
Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) ViewState add-on before version 4 contains an insecure deserialization vulnerability that allows attackers who control a proxied web server to achieve arbitrary code execution by embedding a malicious serialized Java object in the javax.faces.ViewState HTTP response parameter. The JSFViewState.decode() method base64-decodes the ViewState value and passes it directly to ObjectInputStream.readObject() without a deserialization filter, allowlist, or type restriction, causing the malicious object to be deserialized within the ZAP JVM when the Desktop UI renders the ViewState panel.
Affected Software
| Vendor | Product | Version Range | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| zaproxy | zap-extensions | 0 < 4 | affected |
Weaknesses
- CWE-502: Deserialization of Untrusted Data
ADP Enrichment
CISA ADP Vulnrichment
- SSVC:
- Exploitation: none
- Automatable: no
- Technical Impact: total
References
- https://www.zaproxy.org/blog/2026-06-24-java-deserialization-vulnerability-in-zap-viewstate-addon/
- https://github.com/zaproxy/zap-extensions/releases/tag/viewstate-v4
- https://github.com/zaproxy/zap-extensions/pull/7481
- https://github.com/zaproxy/zap-extensions/commit/ac6c3f94d38505bc0facea286a4d3728044c6e5c
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/zap-viewstate-add-on-insecure-deserialization-via-jsfviewstate-decode
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