# CVE-2020-10189: Zoho ManageEngine Desktop Central File Upload Vulnerability

> CVE-2020-10189: Zoho ManageEngine Desktop Central File Upload Vulnerability. CVSS 9.8 (CVSS 3.1), in CISA KEV.

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2020-10189
Last updated: 2025-10-21T23:35:49Z

- Published: 2020-03-06 16:05 UTC · Updated: 2025-10-21 23:35 UTC · Assigner: mitre
- CVSS: 9.8 (CVSS 3.1) · Severity: Critical · Vector: CVSS:3.0/AC:L/AV:N/A:H/C:H/I:H/PR:N/S:U/UI:N
- EPSS: 99.9%, 100th percentile (scored 2026-10-25)
- CISA KEV: yes, added 2021-11-03, federal due date 2022-05-03, ransomware use: Unknown

## 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.

## CISA required action

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

## Affected vendors and products

- Zoho: ManageEngine

## References

- [CVE record on cve.org](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-10189)
- [NVD entry](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-10189)
- [http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/156730/ManageEngine-Desktop-Central-Java-Deserialization.html](http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/156730/ManageEngine-Desktop-Central-Java-Deserialization.html)
- [https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/502.html](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/502.html)
- [https://srcincite.io/advisories/src-2020-0011/](https://srcincite.io/advisories/src-2020-0011/)
- [https://srcincite.io/pocs/src-2020-0011.py.txt](https://srcincite.io/pocs/src-2020-0011.py.txt)
- [https://www.manageengine.com/products/desktop-central/remote-code-execution-vulnerability.html](https://www.manageengine.com/products/desktop-central/remote-code-execution-vulnerability.html)
- [https://www.zdnet.com/article/zoho-zero-day-published-on-twitter/](https://www.zdnet.com/article/zoho-zero-day-published-on-twitter/)

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_Sources: CVE records from the CVE Program (cve.org). CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. (https://www.cve.org/) This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. (https://nvd.nist.gov/) Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog from CISA. (https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog) EPSS scores from FIRST (Exploit Prediction Scoring System). (https://www.first.org/epss/)_


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