CVE-2017-12149
Red Hat JBoss Application Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
- Published
- Oct 4, 2017
- Updated
- Aug 13, 2026
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Evidence observed
- Dec 10, 2021
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HHigh · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 99.8%
- Model date
- Sep 21, 2026
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CISA Known Exploited
This CVE appears in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.
Summary
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.
Sources
12- cve-2017-12149-playgroundResearch
Containerized JBoss AS 6.1.0 research lab for demonstrating Java Deserialization (CVE-2017-12149) and JBoss Seam EL Injection vulnerabilities with pre-configured exploit verification steps.
- CVE-2017-12149Exploit
Update of https://github.com/1337g/CVE-2017-12149 to work with python3
- jboss-_CVE-2017-12149Scanner
Java-based command-line tool to verify the presence of CVE-2017-12149 in JBoss servers by sending crafted requests and checking for a specific response string.
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