VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2011-2196

medium
Published 2011-07-27 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.8

Description

jboss-seam.jar in the JBoss Seam 2 framework 2.2.x and earlier, as distributed in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 4.3.0.CP05 and 5.1.0; JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (aka JBoss EAP or JBEAP) 4.3.0, 4.3.0.CP09, and 5.1.1; and JBoss Enterprise Web Platform 5.1.1, does not properly restrict use of Expression Language (EL) statements in FacesMessages during page exception handling, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary Java code via a crafted URL to an application. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2011-1484.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
redhat redhatjboss_enterprise_application_platform4.3.0
redhat redhatjboss_enterprise_application_platform5.1.1
redhat redhatjboss_enterprise_soa_platform4.3.0
redhat redhatjboss_enterprise_soa_platform5.1.0
redhat redhatjboss_enterprise_web_platform5.1.1
redhat redhatjboss_seam_2_framework{"endIncluding":"2.2.2"}
redhat redhatjboss_seam_2_framework2.0.0
redhat redhatjboss_seam_2_framework2.0.1
redhat redhatjboss_seam_2_framework2.0.2
redhat redhatjboss_seam_2_framework2.0.3
redhat redhatjboss_seam_2_framework2.1.0
redhat redhatjboss_seam_2_framework2.1.1
redhat redhatjboss_seam_2_framework2.1.2
redhat redhatjboss_seam_2_framework2.2.0
redhat redhatjboss_seam_2_framework2.2.1

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.