CVE-2020-5245: Dropwizard Validation

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Dropwizard-Validation before 1.3.19, and 2.0.2 may allow arbitrary code execution on the host system, with the privileges of the Dropwizard service account, by injecting arbitrary Java Expression Language expressions when using the self-validating feature. The issue has been fixed in dropwizard-validation 1.3.19 and 2.0.2.

Affected products

• Dropwizard Dropwizard Validation: before 1.3.19 (fixed in 1.3.19); from 2.0.0, before 2.0.2 (fixed in 2.0.2)
• Oracle Blockchain Platform: before 21.1.2 (fixed in 21.1.2)

Published 2020-02-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.