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Fencer Vulns
high 7.0

CVE-2017-7536 json

Privilege Escalation in Hibernate Validator

published 2018-01-10 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-xxgp-pcfc-3vgc , EUVD-2020-0525

cvss
7.0
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 41%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In Hibernate Validator 5.2.x before 5.2.5 final, 5.3.x, and 5.4.x, it was found that when the security manager's reflective permissions, which allows it to access the private members of the class, are granted to Hibernate Validator, a potential privilege escalation can occur. By allowing the calling code to access those private members without the permission an attacker may be able to validate an invalid instance and access the private member value via ConstraintViolation#getInvalidValue().

Patch / fix

  • maven org.hibernate:hibernate-validator 5.2.5.Final, 5.3.6.Final, 5.4.2.Final
  • redhat hibernate_validator 5.2.5, 5.3.6, 5.4.2
  • libhibernate-validator-java Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4.3.3-4

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-7536

  • v8 satellite capsule 6.4 1:3.14.5.10-19.el7sat
  • tfm satellite capsule 6.4, satellite 6.4 4.0-3.el7sat
  • kobo satellite capsule 6.4, satellite 6.4 0.5.1-1.el7sat
  • pulp satellite capsule 6.4, satellite 6.4 2.16.4.1-1.el7sat
  • gofer satellite capsule 6.4, satellite 6.4 2.12.1-1.el7sat
  • ostree satellite capsule 6.4, satellite 6.4 2017.1-2.atomic.el7
  • SOAPpy satellite capsule 6.4, satellite 6.4 0.11.6-17.el7
  • foreman satellite capsule 6.4, satellite 6.4 1.18.0.37-1.el7sat

red hat advisories RHSA-2018:2927RHSA-2018:2741RHSA-2018:2743RHSA-2018:2742RHSA-2017:2811RHSA-2017:2808

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-2017-7536 updated cvss 6.3

hibernate-validator: Privilege escalation when running under the security manager

  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3 hibernate-validator Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6 hibernate-validator
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 hibernate-validator
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 camel
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat JBoss Fuse Integration Service 2 hibernate-validator
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat JBoss Operations Network 3 hibernate-validator
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2 hibernate-validator
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat JBoss Portal 6 hibernate-validator
    under investigation
  • Red Hat JBoss A-MQ 6.3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:3817
show 14 more
  • Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.0
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:2810
  • Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:3456
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:2740
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 for RHEL 5 Server hornetq 2.3.25-27.SP28_redhat_1.1.ep6.el5, jbossweb 7.5.29-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep6.el5, xerces-j2-eap6 2.9.1-19.redhat_8.1.ep6.el5, guava-libraries 13.0.1-5.redhat_3.1.ep6.el5, codehaus-jackson 1.9.9-14.redhat_7.1.ep6.el5, jboss-vfs2 3.2.13-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep6.el5, +83 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:2742
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 for RHEL 6 Server hornetq 2.3.25-27.SP28_redhat_1.1.ep6.el6, jbossweb 7.5.29-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep6.el6, xerces-j2-eap6 2.9.1-19.redhat_8.1.ep6.el6, guava-libraries 13.0.1-5.redhat_3.1.ep6.el6, codehaus-jackson 1.9.9-14.redhat_7.1.ep6.el6, jboss-vfs2 3.2.13-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep6.el6, +83 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:2743
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 for RHEL 7 Server hornetq 2.3.25-27.SP28_redhat_1.1.ep6.el7, jbossweb 7.5.29-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep6.el7, xerces-j2-eap6 2.9.1-19.redhat_8.1.ep6.el7, guava-libraries 13.0.1-5.redhat_3.1.ep6.el7, codehaus-jackson 1.9.9-14.redhat_7.1.ep6.el7, jboss-vfs2 3.2.13-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep6.el7, +83 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:2741
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0 for RHEL 6 Server eap7-jasypt 1.9.2-2.redhat_1.1.ep7.el6, eap7-wildfly 7.0.8-4.GA_redhat_1.1.ep7.el6, eap7-artemis-native 1.1.0-13.redhat_4.ep7.el6, eap7-bouncycastle 1.56.0-3.redhat_2.2.ep7.el6, eap7-jboss-ec2-eap 7.0.8-1.GA_redhat_1.ep7.el6, eap7-undertow 1.3.31-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep7.el6, +30 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:2809
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0 for RHEL 7 Server eap7-jasypt 1.9.2-2.redhat_1.1.ep7.el7, eap7-wildfly 7.0.8-4.GA_redhat_1.1.ep7.el7, eap7-artemis-native 1.1.0-13.redhat_4.ep7.el7, eap7-bouncycastle 1.56.0-3.redhat_2.2.ep7.el7, eap7-jboss-ec2-eap 7.0.8-1.GA_redhat_1.ep7.el7, eap7-undertow 1.3.31-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep7.el7, +30 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:2811
  • 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 Fuse 6.3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:3817
  • Red Hat Satellite 6.4 tfm 4.0-3.el7sat, kobo 0.5.1-1.el7sat, SOAPpy 0.11.6-17.el7, candlepin 2.4.8-1.el7, gofer 2.12.1-1.el7sat, liquibase 3.1.0-1.el7, +383 more Red Hat Satellite Capsule 6.4 tfm 4.0-3.el7sat, kobo 0.5.1-1.el7sat, SOAPpy 0.11.6-17.el7, gofer 2.12.1-1.el7sat, katello 3.7.0-8.el7sat, pulp 2.16.4.1-1.el7sat, +217 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:2927
  • Red Hat Virtualization 4 Hypervisor for RHEL 7 rhvm-appliance 4.1.20171102.0-1.el7 Red Hat Virtualization 4 Management Agent for RHEL 7 Hosts rhvm-appliance 4.1.20171102.0-1.el7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:3141
  • Red Hat BPM Suite 6 hibernate-validator Red Hat Fuse 7 camel Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6 hibernate-validator Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 7 hibernate-validator Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 hibernate-validator Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 hibernate-validator
    +3 more products
    Red Hat JBoss SOA Platform 5 hibernate-validator Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4 hibernate-validator Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes hibernate-validator
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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Exploit prediction

0.48% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 41% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.4 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.1 7.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.hibernate:hibernate-validator
>=5.2.0, <5.2.5.Final
>=5.3.0, <5.3.6.Final
>=5.4.0, <5.4.2.Final
5.2.5.Final
5.3.6.Final
5.4.2.Final

Affected products

  • Red Hat, Inc. hibernate-validator

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-592 DEPRECATED: Authentication Bypass Issues
  • CWE-470 Use of Externally-Controlled Input to Select Classes or Code

References

Sources

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