Home/CVE/It was found that JGroups did not require necessary headers for encrypt and auth protocols from new nodes joining the cl
CVE

CVE-2016-2141

It was found that JGroups did not require necessary headers for encrypt and auth protocols from new nodes joining the cl

It was found that JGroups did not require necessary headers for encrypt and auth protocols from new nodes joining the cluster. An attacker could use this flaw to bypass security restrictions, and use this vulnerability to send and receive messages within the cluster, leading to information disclosure, message spoofing, or further possible attacks.

CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8 EPSS 0.02326
Schedule remediation
  • CVSS base score ≥ 7.0
Sigma rules0 YARA rules0
▤

Affected Products & Versions

2
redhat jgroups< 4.0
redhat jboss enterprise application platformall versions
▤

Affected Packages

1
Language-ecosystem packages (from OSV) tied to this CVE, with the version that fixes it - the dependency-level detail NVD doesn’t carry.
Maven org.jgroups:jgroups CRITICAL fixed in 3.6.10.Final
▣

Scoring & Timeline

9.8
CRITICAL · CVSS v3.1 · secalert@redhat.com
View on NVD
Attack Vector
Network Adjacent Local Physical
Attack Complexity
Low High
Privileges Required
None Low High
User Interaction
None Required
Scope
Unchanged Changed
Confidentiality
None Low High
Integrity
None Low High
Availability
None Low High
Published to NVD30 Jun 2016 · 04:59 PM
CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
⚑

Vendor Advisories

19
rhsaRHSA-2016:1330Critical
rhsaRHSA-2016:2035Critical
rhsaRHSA-2016:1374Critical
rhsaRHSA-2016:1331Critical
rhsaRHSA-2016:1332Critical
🔗

References & Sources

16
Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1435.htmlVendor Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1439.htmlVendor Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2035.htmlVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91481VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036165Broken LinkThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JGRP-2021Issue TrackingVendor Advisory
Intelligence Graph · click any node to traverse
CVETechnique ActorTool Family
drag to reposition · click any node to traverse · button top-right enlarges
External lookups - second-class, for what we don’t hold ourselves
NVDCVE.orgCISAVulnersExploit-DBGitHub PoCVulnCheck KEVGreyNoise
Vulnerabilities
CISA KEV catalog
CWE weaknesses
CAPEC attack patterns
Package vulnerabilities
Threat intelligence
Threat actors
Tools & malware
ATT&CK techniques
IOCs
Detection & defense
Sigma rules
YARA rules
Atomic Red Team tests
D3FEND countermeasures
Compliance
NIST 800-53
ISO 27001:2022
SOC 2 TSC
PCI-DSS v4.0
CIS Controls v8.1
About
All capabilities
Live statistics
Data sources
Privacy policy
Terms of service
threatengine.sh  ·  Open-source threat intelligence platform  ·  100+ authoritative sources  ·  Every fact traces to its origin