CVE-2011-2196

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-07-27 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

jboss-seam.jar in the JBoss Seam 2 framework 2.2.x and earlier, as distributed in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 4.3.0.CP05 and 5.1.0; JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (aka JBoss EAP or JBEAP) 4.3.0, 4.3.0.CP09, and 5.1.1; and JBoss Enterprise Web Platform 5.1.1, does not properly restrict use of Expression Language (EL) statements in FacesMessages during page exception handling, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary Java code via a crafted URL to an application. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2011-1484.

Affected products

Red Hat JBoss EAP: 4.3.0, 4.3.0-cp09, 5.1.1
RedHat Jboss Enterprise Soa Platform: 4.3.0-cp05, 5.1.0
RedHat Jboss Enterprise Web Platform: 5.1.1
RedHat Jboss Seam 2 Framework: through 2.2.2; 2.0.0-beta1, 2.0.0-cr1, 2.0.0-cr2, 2.0.0-cr3, 2.0.0-ga, 2.0.1-cr1 (+24)

References

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