CVE-2013-2186

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 12.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-10-28 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The DiskFileItem class in Apache Commons FileUpload, as used in Red Hat JBoss BRMS 5.3.1; JBoss Portal 4.3 CP07, 5.2.2, and 6.0.0; and Red Hat JBoss Web Server 1.0.2 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a NULL byte in a file name in a serialized instance.

Affected products

RedHat Jboss Enterprise Brms Platform: 5.3.1
RedHat Jboss Enterprise Portal Platform: 4.3.0-cp07, 5.2.2, 6.0.0
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server: 1.0.2
Openshift: through 3.1
Ubuntu: 10.04

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-11/msg00008.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00033.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00050.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1428.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1429.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1430.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1442.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1448.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/55716
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2029-1
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2827
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2015-1972971.html

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