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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.8

CVE-2018-12533 in the critical feed json

Arbitrary code execution in Richfaces

published 2018-06-18 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-4j38-wjhf-884r , EUVD-2022-2391

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
18.7%
EPSS 18.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

JBoss RichFaces 3.1.0 through 3.3.4 allows unauthenticated remote attackers to inject expression language (EL) expressions and execute arbitrary Java code via a /DATA/ substring in a path with an org.richfaces.renderkit.html.Paint2DResource$ImageData object, aka RF-14310.

Patch / fix

  • richfaces jboss enterprise application platform 5 3.3.1-7.SP3_patch_02.ep5.el5
  • richfaces jboss enterprise application platform 5 3.3.1-4.SP3_patch_02.ep5.el6_10
  • richfaces-ui jboss enterprise application platform 5 3.3.1-7.SP3_patch_02.ep5.el5
  • richfaces-ui jboss enterprise application platform 5 3.3.1-4.SP3_patch_02.ep5.el6_10
  • richfaces-cdk jboss enterprise application platform 5 3.3.1-7.SP3_patch_02.ep5.el5
  • richfaces-demo jboss enterprise application platform 5 3.3.1-7.SP3_patch_02.ep5.el5
  • richfaces-demo jboss enterprise application platform 5 3.3.1-4.SP3_patch_02.ep5.el6_10
  • richfaces-root jboss enterprise application platform 5 3.3.1-7.SP3_patch_02.ep5.el5

red hat advisories RHSA-2018:2664

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-2018-12533 updated cvss 9.8

RichFaces: Injection of arbitrary EL expressions allows remote code execution via org.richfaces.renderkit.html.Paint2DResource

  • Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio 11 RichFaces RichFaces Red Hat JBoss BRMS 5 RichFaces RichFaces Red Hat JBoss SOA Platform 5 RichFaces RichFaces
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 for RHEL 5 Server richfaces 3.3.1-7.SP3_patch_02.ep5.el5, richfaces-ui 3.3.1-7.SP3_patch_02.ep5.el5, richfaces-cdk 3.3.1-7.SP3_patch_02.ep5.el5, richfaces-demo 3.3.1-7.SP3_patch_02.ep5.el5, richfaces-root 3.3.1-7.SP3_patch_02.ep5.el5, richfaces-framework 3.3.1-7.SP3_patch_02.ep5.el5 Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 for RHEL 6 Server richfaces 3.3.1-4.SP3_patch_02.ep5.el6_10, richfaces-ui 3.3.1-4.SP3_patch_02.ep5.el6_10, richfaces-demo 3.3.1-4.SP3_patch_02.ep5.el6_10, richfaces-root 3.3.1-4.SP3_patch_02.ep5.el6_10, richfaces-framework 3.3.1-4.SP3_patch_02.ep5.el6_10
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:2664
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:2663
  • Red Hat JBoss Operations Network 3.3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:2930
  • Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 RichFaces RichFaces Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 RichFaces RichFaces
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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Exploit prediction

18.68% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.richfaces:richfaces-core
>=3.1.0, <=3.3.4
 no fix listed

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-917 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an Expression Language Statement

References

Sources

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