CVE-2025-30065: Apache Parquet RCE via Schema Parsing

Score: 10
CRITICAL
Published: 2025-04-01Affected: Apache Parquet Java ≀ 1.15.0CWE-502 β†—

Can Apache Parquet files contain malware?

A critical deserialization vulnerability in Apache Parquet's Java library. Maliciously crafted Parquet files trigger arbitrary code execution when their schemas are parsed, affecting any data pipeline or analytics platform processing Parquet data.

Impact & Exploitation

CVSS 10.0. Affects virtually every big data platform (Spark, Hadoop, Flink, Hive). A single malicious Parquet file can compromise an entire data lake or analytics cluster.

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