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Red Hat JBoss EAP: CVE-2017-12149: Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Aug 30, 2017
Added
Sep 19, 2024
Modified
Jul 2, 2025

Description

In Jboss Application Server as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Application Platform 5.2, it was found that the doFilter method in the ReadOnlyAccessFilter of the HTTP Invoker does not restrict classes for which it performs deserialization and thus allowing an attacker to execute arbitrary code via crafted serialized data.. It was found that the doFilter method in the ReadOnlyAccessFilter of the HTTP Invoker does not restrict classes for which it performs deserialization. This allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code via crafted serialized data.

Solution

red-hat-jboss-eap-upgrade-latest
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