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Red Hat JBoss EAP: CVE-2016-5406: Other

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jul 26, 2016
Added
Sep 19, 2024
Modified
Jun 19, 2025

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.. The domain controller will not propagate its administrative RBAC configuration to some slaves. An attacker could use this to escalate their privileges.

Solution

red-hat-jboss-eap-upgrade-latest

References

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