# CVE-2019-10086: In Apache Commons Beanutils 1.9.2, a special BeanIntrospector class was added which allows suppressing the ability for an attacker to access

- Also known as: GHSA-6PHF-73Q6-GH87
- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.9.4
- Published: 2019-08-20 · Updated: 2026-10-08

## Affected

- Apache Apache Commons Beanutils: Apache Commons Beanutils 1.0 to 1.9.3
- commons-beanutils:commons-beanutils (Maven): fixed in 1.9.4

## Description

In Apache Commons Beanutils 1.9.2, a special BeanIntrospector class was added which allows suppressing the ability for an attacker to access the classloader via the class property available on all Java objects. We, however were not using this by default characteristic of the PropertyUtilsBean.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Apache Apache Commons Beanutils, commons-beanutils:commons-beanutils, upgrade to a fixed version (1.9.4) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201908.mbox/%3cC628798F-315D-4428-8CB1-4ED1ECC958E4%40apache.org%3e
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00030.html
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/3d1ed1a1596c08c4d5fea97b36c651ce167b773f1afc75251ce7a125%40%3Ccommits.tinkerpop.apache.org%3E
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00007.html
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/956995acee0d8bc046f1df0a55b7fbeb65dd2f82864e5de1078bacb0%40%3Cissues.commons.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/1f78f1e32cc5614ec0c5b822ba4bd7fc8e8b5c46c8e038b6bd609cb5%40%3Cissues.commons.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/02094ad226dbc17a2368beaf27e61d8b1432f5baf77d0ca995bb78bc%40%3Cissues.commons.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/d6ca9439c53374b597f33b7ec180001625597db48ea30356af01145f%40%3Cdev.shiro.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/2fd61dc89df9aeab738d2b49f48d42c76f7d53b980ba04e1d48bce48%40%3Cdev.shiro.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c94bc9649d5109a663b2129371dc45753fbdeacd340105548bbe93c3%40%3Cdev.shiro.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b0656d359c7d40ec9f39c8cc61bca66802ef9a2a12ee199f5b0c1442%40%3Cdev.drill.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/519eb0fd45642dcecd9ff74cb3e71c20a4753f7d82e2f07864b5108f%40%3Cdev.drill.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/f9bc3e55f4e28d1dcd1a69aae6d53e609a758e34d2869b4d798e13cc%40%3Cissues.drill.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/5261066cd7adee081ee05c8bf0e96cf0b2eeaced391e19117ae4daa6%40%3Cdev.shiro.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a684107d3a78e431cf0fbb90629e8559a36ff8fe94c3a76e620b39fa%40%3Cdev.shiro.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4APPGLBWMFAS4WHNLR4LIJ65DJGPV7TF/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JIUYSL2RSIWZVNSUIXJTIFPIPIF6OAIO/
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4317
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0057
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0194
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0806
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0811
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0804
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0805
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r967953a14e05016bc4bcae9ef3dd92e770181158b4246976ed8295c9%40%3Cdev.brooklyn.apache.org%3E

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