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CVE-2009-5066

• Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2012-08-13 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-255

Description

twiddle.sh in JBoss AS 5.0 and EAP 5.0 and earlier accepts credentials as command-line arguments, which allows local users to read the credentials by listing the process and its arguments.

Affected products

• RedHat Jboss Community Application Server: 5.0.0
• Red Hat JBoss EAP: 5.0.0

References

• http://objectopia.com/2009/10/01/securing-jmx-invoker-layer-in-jboss/
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0191.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0192.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0193.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0194.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0195.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0196.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0197.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0198.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0221.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0533.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/51984

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