PT-2018-5100 · Red Hat · Red Hat Jboss Eap

Jason Shepherd · Published 2018-03-09 · Updated 2019-10-09 · CVE-2016-9585

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Red Hat JBoss EAP version 5

Description The issue concerns the deserialization of untrusted data in the JMX endpoint, specifically when it deserializes credentials passed to it. An attacker could exploit this, resulting in a denial of service attack.

Recommendations For Red Hat JBoss EAP version 5, consider restricting access to the JMX endpoint to minimize the risk of exploitation. As a temporary workaround, avoid using the JMX endpoint for deserializing credentials until a patch is available.

Fix

DoS

Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-502

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-9585

Affected Products

Red Hat Jboss Eap

References · 4

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9585 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-9585 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1404528 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/94932 · Note