CVE-2016-5406

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-09-26 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The domain controller in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 7.x before 7.0.2 allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges by leveraging failure to propagate administrative RBAC configuration to all slaves.

Affected products

Red Hat JBoss EAP: through 7.0.1

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1838.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1839.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1840.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1841.html
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3454
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3455
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3456
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3458
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1359014
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1838.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1839.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1840.html

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