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Red Hat JBoss EAP: Deserialization of Untrusted Data (CVE-2021-20318)

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Red Hat JBoss EAP: Deserialization of Untrusted Data (CVE-2021-20318)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/23/2021
Created
03/14/2022
Added
03/14/2022
Modified
04/10/2023

Description

The HornetQ component of Artemis in EAP 7 was not updated with the fix for CVE-2016-4978. A remote attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the application using a JMS ObjectMessage.

Solution(s)

  • red-hat-jboss-eap-upgrade-7_4_3

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