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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.9

CVE-2016-7043 json

Password in config file in KIE server

published 2019-05-15 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-pjw3-c74j-m9fj , EUVD-2022-4792

cvss
5.9
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.5%
EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 74%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

It has been reported that KIE server and Busitess Central before version 7.21.0.Final contain username and password as plaintext Java properties. Any app deployed on the same server would have access to these properties, thus granting access to ther services.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.kie.server:kie-server-common 7.21.0.Final
  • redhat kie-server 7.21.0

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-2016-7043 updated cvss 5.9

kie-server: Plaintext password storage in kie-server and busitess-central

  • Red Hat BPM Suite 6 kie-server kie-server
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Decision Manager 7 kie-server kie-server
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6 kie-server kie-server
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Process Automation 7 kie-server kie-server
    affected: no fix available

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

Exploit prediction

1.53% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 74% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 5.9 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
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.kie.server:kie-server-common
<7.21.0.Final
7.21.0.Final

Affected products

  • KIE kie-server

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-260 Password in Configuration File
  • CWE-255 Credentials Management Errors

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.