CVE-2004-0470

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2004-07-07 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

BEA WebLogic Server and WebLogic Express 7.0 through SP5 and 8.1 through SP2, when editing weblogic.xml using WebLogic Builder or the SecurityRoleAssignmentMBean.toXML method, inadvertently removes security-role-assignment tags when weblogic.xml does not have a principal-name tag, which can remove intended access restrictions for the associated web application.

Affected products

Bea Weblogic Server: 7.0, 8.1

References

http://dev2dev.bea.com/resourcelibrary/advisoriesnotifications/BEA04_59.00.jsp
http://secunia.com/advisories/11593
http://securitytracker.com/id?1010128
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/950070
http://www.osvdb.org/6076
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10328
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16123
http://dev2dev.bea.com/resourcelibrary/advisoriesnotifications/BEA04_59.00.jsp
http://secunia.com/advisories/11593
http://securitytracker.com/id?1010128
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/950070
http://www.osvdb.org/6076

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