CVE-2018-14667: Red Hat JBoss RichFaces Framework Expression Language Injection Vulnerability

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: yes — in CISA KEV since 2023-09-28
EPSS: 74.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-11-06 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-94

Description

The RichFaces Framework 3.X through 3.3.4 is vulnerable to Expression Language (EL) injection via the UserResource resource. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code using a chain of java serialized objects via org.ajax4jsf.resource.UserResource$UriData.

Affected products

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 5.0, 6.0
RedHat Richfaces: from 3.1.0 through 3.3.4

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/156663/Richsploit-RichFaces-Exploitation-Toolkit.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Mar/21
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042037
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3517
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3518
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3519
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3581
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-14667
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/156663/Richsploit-RichFaces-Exploitation-Toolkit.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Mar/21
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042037
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3517

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