CVE-2020-10189

zohocorp manageengine desktop central

Published 6 Mar 2020 · updated 17 Jun 2026 · Analyzed

9.8 Critical · CVSS 3.1, NVD

Exploited in the wild

CISA added this to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 3 Nov 2021, with a remediation deadline of 3 May 2022 for US federal agencies.

Required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Description

Zoho ManageEngine Desktop Central before 10.0.474 allows remote code execution because of deserialization of untrusted data in getChartImage in the FileStorage class. This is related to the CewolfServlet and MDMLogUploaderServlet servlets.

References

packetstormsecurity.com/files/156730/ManageEngine-Desktop-Central-Java-Deserialization.html · Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/502.html · Third Party Advisory
srcincite.io/advisories/src-2020-0011/ · Exploit, Third Party Advisory
srcincite.io/pocs/src-2020-0011.py.txt · Exploit, Third Party Advisory
www.manageengine.com/products/desktop-central/remote-code-execution-vulnerability.html · Vendor Advisory
www.zdnet.com/article/zoho-zero-day-published-on-twitter/ · Third Party Advisory
www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2020-10189 · US Government Resource