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CVE-2017-1000486
Primetek Primefaces 5.x is vulnerable to a weak encryption flaw resulting in remote code execution
Critical9.8Known exploitedEPSS 94.1%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
Primetek Primefaces 5.x is vulnerable to a weak encryption flaw resulting in remote code execution
Exploited in the wild
CISA lists this vulnerability in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog as Primetek Primefaces Remote Code Execution Vulnerability.
- Added
- 10 Jan 2022
- Fix due (US federal)
- 10 Jul 2022
- Used by ransomware
- Not known
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Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 94.1% · top 0.2% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: active · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.primefaces:primefacesGHSA-j239-4gqg-5j54 (opens in a new tab)
References (5)
- https://github.com/primefaces/primefaces/issues/1152 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://cryptosense.com/weak-encryption-flaw-in-primefaces/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://blog.mindedsecurity.com/2016/02/rce-in-oracle-netbeans-opensource.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 43733 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2017-1000486 (opens in a new tab)government-resource
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- CISA KEV catalog (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-j239-4gqg-5j54 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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