TantoSec published a working exploit chaining a Telerik UI padding oracle to unauthenticated RCE; Progress patched the flaws in July.
TantoSec's Marcio Almeida released a full exploit chain and tooling for the RadAsyncUpload control in Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX, turning a padding oracle (CVE-2026-13182) into unauthenticated RCE via an unguarded type-resolution flaw (CVE-2026-13181, CVSS 8.1). Exploitation requires a rendered RadAsyncUpload handler and an explicit non-default encryption key, and took roughly 127,000 oracle requests (about an hour) in lab testing. Versions 2010.1.309 through 2026.2.519 are affected; Progress fixed the chain in 2026.2.708 on July 8, 2026, and no in-the-wild exploitation has been confirmed. A separate RCE chain in RadPersistenceManager and RadDockLayout (CVE-2026-13185, -13186, -13190) was also patched but has no public exploit.
Unauthenticated .NET Deserialization RCE in Progress Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX
CVE-2019-18935 is a .NET deserialization flaw (CWE-502) in the RadAsyncUpload function of Progress Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX through version 2019.3.1023. It is triggered when an attacker who knows the Telerik upload encryption keys — most commonly because the earlier flaws CVE-2017-11317 or CVE-2017-11357 exposed them, though keys can be obtained by other means — sends crafted serialized data to RadAsyncUpload, allowing remote code execution without authentication. Successful exploitation gives an attacker arbitrary code execution on the hosting IIS/ASP.NET web server, reflected in the critical 9.8 CVSS score. Any web application built with Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX at or below 2019.3.1023 is affected, unless 2019.3.1023 has the non-default hardening setting enabled (as of 2020.1.114 a default setting prevents the exploit). Exploitation is rampant in the wild: the flaw was added to CISA KEV on 2021-11-03 with known ransomware use, carries a 99.7% EPSS probability of exploitation, has multiple public exploits (Bishop Fox, RAU_crypto, noperator), and has been used by multiple threat groups — including ransomware and government-linked actors — to breach organizations including a U.S. federal agency.
· Telerik (Progress) UI for ASP.NET AJAX All versions through 2019.3.1023 (RadAsyncUpload exploitable when encryption keys are known; 2019.3.1023 requires a non-default setting to prevent exploitation; KEV ransomware PoC ×4large
In Progress® Telerik® UI for AJAX prior to v2026.2.708, applications using cookie-based storage in RadPersistenceManager or RadDockLayout deserialize attacker-c
In Progress® Telerik® UI for AJAX prior to v2026.2.708, applications using cookie-based storage in RadPersistenceManager or RadDockLayout deserialize attacker-controlled cookie content, allowing unauthenticated remote code execution.
In Progress® Telerik® UI for AJAX prior to v2026.2.708, a path traversal vulnerability in the file-based persistence storage provider can be exploited when the
In Progress® Telerik® UI for AJAX prior to v2026.2.708, a path traversal vulnerability in the file-based persistence storage provider can be exploited when the storage key is derived from user-controlled input, enabling attacker-controlled deserialization and remote code execution.
In Progress® Telerik® UI for AJAX prior to v2026.2.708, forged upload metadata can influence AsyncUploadTypeName processing and trigger unsafe attacker-controll
In Progress® Telerik® UI for AJAX prior to v2026.2.708, forged upload metadata can influence AsyncUploadTypeName processing and trigger unsafe attacker-controlled type resolution, enabling remote code execution in affected deployments.
In Progress® Telerik® UI for AJAX prior to v2026.2.708, a deserialization vulnerability in the persistence utilities allows unsafe type instantiation from attac
In Progress® Telerik® UI for AJAX prior to v2026.2.708, a deserialization vulnerability in the persistence utilities allows unsafe type instantiation from attacker-influenced persisted state, which can lead to remote code execution.
In Progress® Telerik® UI for AJAX prior to v2026.2.708, when Telerik.Upload.ConfigurationHashKey is absent and machineKey is not explicitly configured, upload m
In Progress® Telerik® UI for AJAX prior to v2026.2.708, when Telerik.Upload.ConfigurationHashKey is absent and machineKey is not explicitly configured, upload metadata integrity protection may fall back to a predictable default key, enabling attackers to forge protected upload metadata and unlock further exploit chains.
In Progress® Telerik® UI for AJAX prior to v2026.2.708, RadAsyncUpload upload metadata processing may leak cryptographic validity through measurable timing diff
In Progress® Telerik® UI for AJAX prior to v2026.2.708, RadAsyncUpload upload metadata processing may leak cryptographic validity through measurable timing differences, enabling remote attackers to recover protected metadata values.
In Progress® Telerik® UI for AJAX prior to v2026.2.708, RadAsyncUpload client-state processing can distinguish decrypt failures from invalid-JSON parse failures
In Progress® Telerik® UI for AJAX prior to v2026.2.708, RadAsyncUpload client-state processing can distinguish decrypt failures from invalid-JSON parse failures, creating an oracle that reveals protected metadata values to remote attackers.
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