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CVE-2017-12189

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-01-10 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-282

Description

It was discovered that the jboss init script as used in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0.7.GA performed unsafe file handling which could result in local privilege escalation. This issue is a result of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-8656.

Affected products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 6.0, 7.0
• Red Hat JBoss EAP: 7.0

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102407
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0002
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0003
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0004
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0005
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-12189
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102407
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0002
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0003
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0004
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0005
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-12189

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