CVE-2026-82436
| Severity | 8.8 High CVSS 3.1 |
|---|---|
| Weakness | Deserialization of untrusted data (CWE-502) |
| Published | 9 Nov 2026 |
| Updated | 12 Nov 2026 |
Published 4 days ago. NVD often adds the list of affected products days or weeks after a CVE is published, and the other sources we check lag too. The scope and status here may change.
Description
Description
DefaultStateSerializer, used to persist and restore stateful bolt checkpoints, configured Kryo with class
registration disabled and an instantiation strategy that constructs objects without invoking their
constructors, then deserialized whatever bytes the state store returned. A party able to write to the
topology's keyspace in the state store, for example a co-tenant of a shared Redis instance or anyone with
network access to it, could therefore place a serialized object graph that executes code inside the worker
JVM when the state is restored.
This requires the Redis-backed state provider, which is not the default. Write access to a state-store key
is a data-plane privilege; code execution in the worker JVM is not, so the two are not equivalent.
Mitigation
Upgrade to 3.1.0, where the state serializer requires registered classes.
Note that this is a behaviour change for existing state: checkpoints written by an affected version may fail
to restore, and a migration step may be required. Users who cannot upgrade immediately should restrict
network and credential access to the state store to the cluster itself.
Credit
The ASF -- found using Claude agents to study the security of open-source projects, validated and reported by Apache Storm.
Exploitation status
No public exploit
No exploit has been reported in the sources we check.
Exploitation status
- CISA KEV not listed
- VulnCheck KEV not listed
- CISA Vulnrichment exploitation: none
- Indexed PoC none indexed
- EPSS 0.57% chance in 30 days
Waratek protection
Within Waratek scope. In the sources we check, nobody has published exploit code for this CVE or reported it being exploited.
VRT has not found a public code change for this CVE yet.
- Protection none
- Action not pursued
- Review automated Upstream data
- Record active
| Decided by | Nothing to build a rule from yet: no published exploit, no CISA record of exploitation and no source-level change to read |
|---|---|
| Finding | This CVE affects a known product, but nothing published names a fix and nothing published shows an exploit. That is a statement about the evidence, not about the defect — it does not mean the vulnerability is unimportant or unreachable, only that neither of the two things VRT can act on exists. |
References
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/q5vqclkjdvngwkffcbwbwyym410sp8sc | |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/11/09/1 |
Timeline
Timeline
| Published | 2026-11-09 | By the CVE Program. |
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| NVD record modified | 2026-11-12 | NVD's own last-modified date for this record. |