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CVE-2012-5478

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 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: 2013-02-05 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The AuthorizationInterceptor in JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) before 5.2.0, Web Platform (EWP) before 5.2.0, BRMS Platform before 5.3.1, and SOA Platform before 5.3.1 does not properly restrict access, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended role restrictions and perform arbitrary JMX operations via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• Red Hat JBoss EAP: 5.2.0
• RedHat Jboss Enterprise Brms Platform: through 5.3.0
• RedHat Jboss Enterprise Web Platform: 5.2.0

References

• 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
• http://secunia.com/advisories/52054

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