Bug 1395077 (CVE-2016-8648) - CVE-2016-8648 Karaf JMX Console RCE during deserialization
Summary: CVE-2016-8648 Karaf JMX Console RCE during deserialization
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2016-8648
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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: 1395074 (view as bug list)
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Blocks: 1395084
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-11-15 05:29 UTC by Jason Shepherd
Modified: 2021-10-21 11:47 UTC (History)
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It was found that the Karaf container used by Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6.x, and Red Hat JBoss A-MQ 6.x, deserializes objects passed to MBeans via JMX operations. An attacker could use this flaw to execute remote code on the server as the user running the Java Virtual Machine if the target MBean contain deserialization gadgets in its classpath.
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Last Closed: 2021-10-21 11:47:44 UTC
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Description Jason Shepherd 2016-11-15 05:29:53 UTC 
It was found that Karaf deserializes objects passed to certain MBeans via the JMX endpoint. An attacker could use this flaw to execute remote code on the server as the user running the Java Virtual Machine.
Comment 1 Jason Shepherd 2016-11-15 05:29:59 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: Jason Shepherd (Red Hat)
Comment 4 Jason Shepherd 2016-11-24 06:45:54 UTC 
Mitigation:

In order to exploit this issue you need to have credentials of a user with the 'admin' role. Therefore a good mitigation against this attack is to set a strong password for any user with the 'admin' role in the 'etc/users.properties' file of the Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6, or Red Hat JBoss AM-Q 6.
Comment 6 Jason Shepherd 2016-11-30 01:46:52 UTC 
Updated it to amq-6. However seems amq-6.3.0 was valid to me. Maybe you didn't have the latest product.ini?
Comment 7 Hiram Chirino 2016-12-02 14:09:27 UTC 
Which MBeans are affected?
Comment 11 Jason Shepherd 2020-07-13 22:20:34 UTC 
*** Bug 1395074 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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