CVE-2010-1871: Red Hat Linux JBoss Seam 2 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: yes — in CISA KEV since 2021-12-10
EPSS: 83.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2010-08-05 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-917

Description

JBoss Seam 2 (jboss-seam2), as used in JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 4.3.0 for Red Hat Linux, does not properly sanitize inputs for JBoss Expression Language (EL) expressions, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted URL. NOTE: this is only a vulnerability when the Java Security Manager is not properly configured.

Affected products

NetApp Oncommand Balance: all versions
OnCommand Insight: all versions
NetApp OnCommand Unified Manager for 7-Mode (core package): all versions
Red Hat JBoss EAP: 4.3.0

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2013-05/0117.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0564.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/41994
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024253
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1929
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=615956
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/60794
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20161017-0001/
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2013-05/0117.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0564.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/41994
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024253

Get alerted when CVE-2010-1871 or the next vulnerability affects your stack