CVE-2025-30065

Schema parsing in the parquet-avro module of Apache Parquet 1.15.0 and previous versions allows bad actors to execute arbitrary code

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 1.15.1, which fixes the issue.

Weakness

The product deserializes untrusted data without sufficiently ensuring that the resulting data will be valid.

Affected Software

Potential Mitigations

• Make fields transient to protect them from deserialization.
• An attempt to serialize and then deserialize a class containing transient fields will result in NULLs where the transient data should be. This is an excellent way to prevent time, environment-based, or sensitive variables from being carried over and used improperly.

Related Attack Patterns

• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/586.html

References

• https://lists.apache.org/thread/okzqb3kn479gqzxm21gg5vqr35om9gw5
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/04/01/1
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-30065
• https://github.com/apache/parquet-java/pull/3169
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43603091
• https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/max-severity-rce-flaw-discovered-in-widely-used-apache-parquet/
• https://github.com/h3st4k3r/CVE-2025-30065/blob/main/POC-CVE-2025-30065-ParquetExploitGenerator.java
• https://github.com/mouadk/parquet-rce-poc-CVE-2025-30065/blob/main/src/main/java/com/evil/GenerateMaliciousParquetSSRF.java