# CVE-2019-12180: An issue was discovered in SmartBear ReadyAPI through 2.8.2 and 3.0.0 and SoapUI through 5.5.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 GitHub repo listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Published: 2020-02-05 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

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.

## What to do

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## Related

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## References

- https://lab.mediaservice.net/advisory/2020-04-readyapi-soapui.txt
- https://github.com/0x-nope/CVE-2019-12180

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