CVE-2025-70974: FASTJSON Includes Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere
Fastjson before 1.2.48 mishandles autoType because, when an @type key is in a JSON document, and the value of that key is the name of a Java class, there may be calls to certain public methods of that class. Depending on the behavior of those methods, there may be JNDI injection with an attacker-supplied payload located elsewhere in that JSON document. This was exploited in the wild in 2023 through 2025.
Published Jan 9, 2026 · Updated Oct 5, 2026
Affected packages
com.alibaba:fastjson
- Ecosystem
- Maven
- Affected
- < 1.2.48
- Fixed in
- 1.2.48
- Check
mvn dependency:tree -Dincludes=com.alibaba:fastjson
Advisory details
From the GitHub Advisory Database (CC BY 4.0).
Fastjson before 1.2.48 mishandles autoType because, when an @type key is in a JSON document, and the value of that key is the name of a Java class, there may be calls to certain public methods of that class. Depending on the behavior of those methods, there may be JNDI injection with an attacker-supplied payload located elsewhere in that JSON document. This was exploited in the wild in 2023 through 2025. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2017-18349. Also, a later bypass is covered by CVE-2022-25845.
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-70974
- https://github.com/alibaba/fastjson/compare/1.2.47...1.2.48
- https://github.com/vulhub/vulhub/tree/master/fastjson/1.2.47-rce
- https://www.cloudsek.com/blog/androxgh0st-continues-exploitation-operators-compromise-a-us-university-for-hosting-c2-logger
- https://www.cnvd.org.cn/flaw/show/CNVD-2019-22238
- https://www.freebuf.com/vuls/208339.html
- https://www.seebug.org/vuldb/ssvid-98020
- https://web.archive.org/web/20220121055754/https://cert.360.cn/warning/detail?id=7240aeab581c6dc2c9c5350756079955
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-70974
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2428203
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jm7w-5684-pvh8
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