CVE-2026-57527
Severity CVSS v4.0:
HIGH
Type:
CWE-502
Deserialization of Untrusted Dat
Publication date:
26/06/2026
Last modified:
14/07/2026
Description
Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) ViewState add-on before version 4 contains an insecure deserialization vulnerability that allows attackers who control a proxied web server to achieve arbitrary code execution by embedding a malicious serialized Java object in the javax.faces.ViewState HTTP response parameter. The JSFViewState.decode() method base64-decodes the ViewState value and passes it directly to ObjectInputStream.readObject() without a deserialization filter, allowlist, or type restriction, causing the malicious object to be deserialized within the ZAP JVM when the Desktop UI renders the ViewState panel.
Impact
Base Score 4.0
8.70
Severity 4.0
HIGH
Base Score 3.x
8.80
Severity 3.x
HIGH
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://github.com/zaproxy/zap-extensions/commit/ac6c3f94d38505bc0facea286a4d3728044c6e5c
- https://github.com/zaproxy/zap-extensions/pull/7481
- https://github.com/zaproxy/zap-extensions/releases/tag/viewstate-v4
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/zap-viewstate-add-on-insecure-deserialization-via-jsfviewstate-decode
- https://www.zaproxy.org/blog/2026-06-24-java-deserialization-vulnerability-in-zap-viewstate-addon/



