CVE-2016-8735
CRITICAL severity · CVSS 9.8 · actively exploited (CISA KEV)
9.8CVSS CRITICAL ● exploited
🔴 Actively exploited in the wild (CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities).
Added to KEV 2023-05-12. US federal agencies must patch by 2023-06-02.
Summary
Remote code execution is possible with Apache Tomcat before 6.0.48, 7.x before 7.0.73, 8.x before 8.0.39, 8.5.x before 8.5.7, and 9.x before 9.0.0.M12 if JmxRemoteLifecycleListener is used and an attacker can reach JMX ports. The issue exists because this listener wasn't updated for consistency with the CVE-2016-3427 Oracle patch that affected credential types.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactHigh
Integrity impactHigh
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)94%
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products we track (3)
Recommendation
This vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild — patch affected products urgently. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1767644 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1767644Patch
- http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1767656Patch
- http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1767676Patch
- http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1767684Patch
- http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.htmlAdvisory
- http://tomcat.apache.org/security-7.htmlAdvisory
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/502Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0457.htmlAdvisory