CVE-2019-18935
9.8, critical Known exploited Used in ransomwareProgress Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX Deserialization of Untrusted Data Vulnerability
- CVSS
- 9.8, critical critical CVSS v3.1
- EPSS, next 30 days
- 100% higher than 99.9% of scored CVEs
- Exploitation
- Confirmed in the wild
- Published
- 11 Dec 20196 years ago
Known exploited
CISA added this to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog on 3 Nov 2021 and links it to ransomware activity. US federal agencies had to remediate by 3 May 2022, a deadline that has passed.
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Description
Progress Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX through 2019.3.1023 contains a .NET deserialization vulnerability in the RadAsyncUpload function. This is exploitable when the encryption keys are known due to the presence of CVE-2017-11317 or CVE-2017-11357, or other means. Exploitation can result in remote code execution. (As of 2020.1.114, a default setting prevents the exploit. In 2019.3.1023, but not earlier versions, a non-default setting can prevent exploitation.)
Details
- Vendor
- Progress
- Product
- Ui For Asp.net Ajax
- Weakness
- CWE-502 (opens in a new tab)
- Status
- Analyzed
- Updated
- 17 Jun 2026
- Assigner
- cve@mitre.org
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
References 11
Exploit code 5
- packetstormsecurity.com /files/155720/Telerik-UI-Remote-Code-Execution.html (opens in a new tab)
- packetstormsecurity.com /files/159653/Telerik-UI-ASP.NET-AJAX-RadAsyncUpload-Deserialization.html (opens in a new tab)
- github.com /bao7uo/RAU_crypto (opens in a new tab)
- github.com /noperator/CVE-2019-18935 (opens in a new tab)
- know.bishopfox.com /research/cve-2019-18935-remote-code-execution-in-telerik-ui (opens in a new tab)
Patches and fixes 1
Advisories 2
Other references 3
- codewhitesec.blogspot.com /2019/02/telerik-revisited.html (opens in a new tab)
- cisa.gov /known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2019-18935 (opens in a new tab)
- telerik.com /support/whats-new/aspnet-ajax/release-history/ui-for-asp-net-ajax-r1-2020-%28version-2020-1-114%29 (opens in a new tab)
The kind is read from NVD's tags where present and from the shape of the URL otherwise, so treat it as a hint.
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Assembled from the NVD 2.0 API, the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog and FIRST EPSS. Scores are as of our last collection on 17 Oct 2026, not the live upstream state.