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Fencer Vulns
high 8.8

CVE-2016-5406 json

The domain controller in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 7.x before 7.0.2 allows remote authenticated users to gain pri…

published 2016-09-26 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-6351

cvss
8.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.9%
EPSS 2.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 87%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The domain controller in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 7.x before 7.0.2 allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges by leveraging failure to propagate administrative RBAC configuration to all slaves.

Patch / fix

  • eap7-jboss-ec2-eap jboss enterprise application platform 7 7.1.0-5.GA_redhat_5.ep7.el6
  • eap7-jboss-ec2-eap jboss enterprise application platform 7.1 7.1.0-5.GA_redhat_5.ep7.el7
  • eap7-jboss-ec2-eap-samples jboss enterprise application platform 7 7.1.0-5.GA_redhat_5.ep7.el6
  • eap7-jboss-ec2-eap-samples jboss enterprise application platform 7.1 7.1.0-5.GA_redhat_5.ep7.el7
  • eap7-ecj jboss enterprise application platform 7.1 4.6.1-1.redhat_1.1.ep7.el7
  • eap7-vdx jboss enterprise application platform 7.1 1.1.6-1.redhat_1.1.ep7.el7
  • eap7-xom jboss enterprise application platform 7.1 1.2.10-2.redhat_1.1.ep7.el7
  • eap7-txw2 jboss enterprise application platform 7.1 2.2.11-10.redhat_4.1.ep7.el7

red hat advisories RHSA-2017:3458RHSA-2017:3455RHSA-2017:3454RHSA-2016:1840RHSA-2016:1839RHSA-2016:1838

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-5406 updated cvss 7.5

EAP7 Privilege escalation when managing domain including earlier version slaves

  • Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.0
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:1841
  • Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:3456
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0 for RHEL 6 Server eap7-wss4j 2.1.5-1.redhat_1.1.ep7.el6, eap7-apache-cxf 3.1.6-1.redhat_1.1.ep7.el6, eap7-wildfly 7.0.2-2.GA_redhat_1.1.ep7.el6, eap7-xalan-j2 2.7.1-25.redhat_11.1.ep7.el6, eap7-jberet 1.2.1-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep7.el6, eap7-wss4j-policy 2.1.5-1.redhat_1.1.ep7.el6, +68 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:1838
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0 for RHEL 7 Server eap7-wss4j 2.1.5-1.redhat_1.1.ep7.el7, eap7-apache-cxf 3.1.6-1.redhat_1.1.ep7.el7, eap7-wildfly 7.0.2-2.GA_redhat_1.1.ep7.el7, eap7-xalan-j2 2.7.1-25.redhat_11.1.ep7.el7, eap7-jberet 1.2.1-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep7.el7, eap7-wss4j-policy 2.1.5-1.redhat_1.1.ep7.el7, +68 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:1840
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 for RHEL 6 Server eap7-ecj 4.6.1-1.redhat_1.1.ep7.el6, eap7-vdx 1.1.6-1.redhat_1.1.ep7.el6, eap7-xom 1.2.10-2.redhat_1.1.ep7.el6, eap7-jaxen 1.1.6-3.redhat_1.1.ep7.el6, eap7-jsoup 1.8.3-3.redhat_2.1.ep7.el6, eap7-antlr 2.7.7-35.redhat_7.1.ep7.el6, +281 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:3454
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 for RHEL 7 Server eap7-ecj 4.6.1-1.redhat_1.1.ep7.el7, eap7-vdx 1.1.6-1.redhat_1.1.ep7.el7, eap7-xom 1.2.10-2.redhat_1.1.ep7.el7, eap7-jaxen 1.1.6-3.redhat_1.1.ep7.el7, eap7-jsoup 1.8.3-3.redhat_2.1.ep7.el7, eap7-antlr 2.7.7-35.redhat_7.1.ep7.el7, +281 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:3458
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 DomainManagement DomainManagement
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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Exploit prediction

2.90% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.