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Fencer Vulns
high 8.8

CVE-2016-7065 in the critical feed json

The JMX servlet in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 4 and 5 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of servi…

published 2016-10-13 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-7945

cvss
8.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
12.5%
EPSS 12.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

The JMX servlet in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 4 and 5 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted serialized Java object.

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-2016-7065 updated cvss 8.0

JBoss EAP 5 JMX servlet deserializes Java objects sent via HTTP

  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 4 jbossas jbossas Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 jbossas jbossas Red Hat JBoss SOA Platform 4 jbossas jbossas Red Hat JBoss SOA Platform 5 jbossas jbossas
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-40842)

Exploit prediction

12.47% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-40842 Red Hat JBoss EAP - Deserialization of Untrusted Data webapps, 2016-11-28

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-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data

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.