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CVE-2005-4709

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2005-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The popSubjectContext method in the SecurityAssociation class in JBoss Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) 3.0 RC3 maintains the threadPrincipal and threadCredential values from a previous client's authentication after termination of a client session, which allows remote attackers to gain the roles of an arbitrary previous client who had the same JBoss server thread.

References

• http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/EJBTHREE-384
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0374
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24384
• http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/EJBTHREE-384
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0374
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24384

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