CVE-2019-12180: Smartbear Readyapi

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 4.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in SmartBear ReadyAPI through 2.8.2 and 3.0.0 and SoapUI through 5.5. When opening a project, the Groovy "Load Script" is automatically executed. This allows an attacker to execute arbitrary Groovy Language code (Java scripting language) on the victim machine by inducing it to open a malicious Project. The same issue is present in the "Save Script" function, which is executed automatically when saving a project.

Affected products

• Smartbear Readyapi: from 2.8.2, up to and including 3.0.0
• Smartbear Soapui: up to and including 5.5

Published 2020-02-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.