CVE-2016-4974 (GCVE-0-2016-4974)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-07-13 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 00:46
VLAI
Summary
Apache Qpid AMQP 0-x JMS client before 6.0.4 and JMS (AMQP 1.0) before 0.10.0 does not restrict the use of classes available on the classpath, which might allow remote authenticated users with permission to send messages to deserialize arbitrary objects and execute arbitrary code by leveraging a crafted serialized object in a JMS ObjectMessage that is handled by the getObject function.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
redhat CNA under the redhat root
CNA scorecard B 82/100 over 1045 records in the last 180 days details
References
Date Public
2016-06-27 00:00
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