CVE-2018-11789: Apache Heron

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 6.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

When accessing the heron-ui webpage, people can modify the file paths outside of the current container to access any file on the host. Example woule be modifying the parameter path= to go to the directory you would like to view. i.e. ..%2F..%2F..%2F..%2F..%2F..%2Fetc%2Fpasswd.

Affected products

• Apache Heron: from 0.13.0, up to and including 0.17.8

Published 2019-03-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.