CVE-2016-8648

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-08-01 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-502

Description

It was found that the Karaf container used by Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6.x, and Red Hat JBoss A-MQ 6.x, deserializes objects passed to MBeans via JMX operations. An attacker could use this flaw to execute remote code on the server as the user running the Java Virtual Machine if the target MBean contain deserialization gadgets in its classpath.

Affected products

RedHat Jboss A-Mq: 6.0.0
RedHat Jboss Fuse: 6.0.0

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94513
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8648
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94513
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8648

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