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Red Hat JBoss: CVE-2016-5406: A remote attacker could elevate privileges.

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Red Hat JBoss: CVE-2016-5406: A remote attacker could elevate privileges.

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/26/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/01/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • jboss_enterprise_application_platform-cve-2016-5406-1

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