CVE-2010-0738

Red Hat JBoss: Authentication Bypass

As of , CVE-2010-0738 in Red Hat JBoss is on CISA's list of exploited vulnerabilities: CISA listed it on . Our patch-first group: Patch this week.

Exploited
Yes: CISA listed it on 25 May 2022
US federal deadline
15 June 202221 days after CISA listed it. US federal civilian agencies must fix it by then.
Used in ransomware campaigns
Known
EPSS score
0.80Higher than 99% of the CVEs EPSS scores. EPSS estimates the chance of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS when listed
0.83 on 25 May 2022EPSS on the day CISA listed it.
Public exploit
7 Metasploit modules and 4 Exploit-DB entries (3 verified)
Fix
No vendor link in CISA's entry

What CISA says to do

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

CISA's required action

What the flaw is

The JMX-Console web application in JBossAs in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform performs access control only for the GET and POST methods, which allows remote attackers to send requests to this application's GET handler by using a different method.

CISA's description

The JMX-Console web application in JBossAs in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (aka JBoss EAP or JBEAP) 4.2 before 4.2.0.CP09 and 4.3 before 4.3.0.CP08 performs access control only for the GET and POST methods, which allows remote attackers to send requests to this application's GET handler by using a different method.

The CVE record's description, from redhat

CVE published
28 April 2010
Assigned by
redhat
CVSS
3.7 Low (CVSS 3.1, from CISA-ADP)
CWE-749
Exposed Dangerous Method or Function
CWE-264
Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
CISA SSVC, exploitation
active
CISA SSVC, automatable
no
CISA SSVC, technical impact
partial

Timeline

  1. The CVE record was published.
  2. Exploit-DB published an exploit (EDB-ID 16316).
  3. Exploit-DB published an exploit (EDB-ID 16319).
  4. Exploit-DB published an exploit (EDB-ID 16274).
  5. Exploit-DB published an exploit (EDB-ID 17924).
  6. CISA added it to its list of exploited vulnerabilities.
  7. The US federal deadline to fix it.

Public exploits

Facts from Metasploit's module list and Exploit-DB's index; we never copy exploit code.

JBoss: other exploited entries

VulnerabilityProductOur groupListedDeadlineEPSS
CVE-2010-1428Information DisclosureRed Hat JBossPatch this weekRansomware use; Metasploit module; EPSS 0.610.61

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