Information disclosure in JBoss BRMS - CVE-2016-4993
Published: September 12, 2016 / Updated: March 6, 2017
Vulnerability identifier: #VU408
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-4993
CWE-ID: CWE-200
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Red Hat Inc.
Affected software:
JBoss BRMS
JBoss BRMS
Detailed vulnerability description
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to disclose potentially sensitive data.
The vulnerability is caused by a parsing error when handling specially crafted URLs. A remote attacker can trigger the application to return a split query, which can lead to content spoofing and cache poisoning attacks.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to get access to potentially sensitive information or perform phishing attacks.
How to mitigate CVE-2016-4993
Update to 7.0.2.