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CVE-2016-2171

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 42.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-04-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The User Manager service in Apache Jetspeed before 2.3.1 does not properly restrict access using Jetspeed Security, which allows remote attackers to (1) add, (2) edit, or (3) delete users via the REST API.

Affected products

• Apache Jetspeed: through 2.3.0

References

• http://haxx.ml/post/140552592371/remote-code-execution-in-apache-jetspeed-230-and
• http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/portals-jetspeed-user/201603.mbox/%3CB9165E38-F3D8-496D-8642-8A53FCAC736A%40gmail.com%3E
• https://portals.apache.org/jetspeed-2/security-reports.html#CVE-2016-2171
• http://haxx.ml/post/140552592371/remote-code-execution-in-apache-jetspeed-230-and
• http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/portals-jetspeed-user/201603.mbox/%3CB9165E38-F3D8-496D-8642-8A53FCAC736A%40gmail.com%3E
• https://portals.apache.org/jetspeed-2/security-reports.html#CVE-2016-2171

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