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CVE-2017-12149
In Jboss Application Server as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Application Platform 5.2, it was found that the doFilter method in the…
Critical9.8Known exploitedEPSS 90.7%
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Description
In Jboss Application Server as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Application Platform 5.2, it was found that the doFilter method in the ReadOnlyAccessFilter of the HTTP Invoker does not restrict classes for which it performs deserialization and thus allowing an attacker to execute arbitrary code via crafted serialized data.
Exploited in the wild
CISA lists this vulnerability in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog as Red Hat JBoss Application Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability.
- Added
- 10 Dec 2021
- Fix due (US federal)
- 10 Jun 2022
- Used by ransomware
- 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)
- 90.7% · 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
- affected n/a
References (6)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1486220 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:1608 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://github.com/gottburgm/Exploits/tree/master/CVE-2017-12149 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 100591 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:1607 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2017-12149 (opens in a new tab)government-resource
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
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- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
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- CISA KEV catalog (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
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- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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