CVE-2016-7065

high

Published 2016-10-13 · 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

9.8

Description

The JMX servlet in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 4 and 5 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted serialized Java object.

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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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-40842 webapps java verified

Mediaservice.net Srl. · 2016-11-28

Red Hat JBoss EAP - Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
redhat	jboss_enterprise_application_platform	`4.0.0`
redhat	jboss_enterprise_application_platform	`5.0.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-502

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

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