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CVE-2017-5878

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-06-08 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-502

Description

The AMF unmarshallers in Red5 Media Server before 1.0.8 do not restrict the classes for which it performs deserialization, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted serialized Java data.

Affected products

• Red5 Media Server: 1.0.2, 1.0.2-milestone1, 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.0.5, 1.0.6 (+21)

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/22/2
• https://www.github.com/mbechler/marshalsec/blob/master/marshalsec.pdf?raw=true
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/22/2
• https://www.github.com/mbechler/marshalsec/blob/master/marshalsec.pdf?raw=true

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