CVE-2016-5406

high

Published 2016-09-26 · Modified 2026-05-06

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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

The domain controller in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 7.x before 7.0.2 allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges by leveraging failure to propagate administrative RBAC configuration to all slaves.

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.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

Red Hat Fixed 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
7.0	Not affected	—
6.0	Not affected	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
redhat	jboss_enterprise_application_platform	`{"endIncluding":"7.0.1"}`

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.