VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-4462

high
Published 2017-08-30 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
8.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.8

Description

By manipulating the URL parameter externalLoginKey, a malicious, logged in user could pass valid Freemarker directives to the Template Engine that are reflected on the webpage; a specially crafted Freemarker template could be used for remote code execution. Mitigation: Upgrade to Apache OFBiz 16.11.01

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
92%
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
apache apacheofbiz11.04.02
apache apacheofbiz11.04
apache apacheofbiz11.04.01
apache apacheofbiz11.04.03
apache apacheofbiz11.04.04
apache apacheofbiz11.04.05
apache apacheofbiz11.04.06
apache apacheofbiz12.04
apache apacheofbiz12.04.01
apache apacheofbiz12.04.02
apache apacheofbiz12.04.03
apache apacheofbiz12.04.04
apache apacheofbiz12.04.05
apache apacheofbiz12.04.06
apache apacheofbiz13.07
apache apacheofbiz13.07.01
apache apacheofbiz13.07.02
apache apacheofbiz13.07.03

References

CWEs

CWE-20

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

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