CVE-2016-2141

published 2016-06-30

CVE-2016-2141: 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…

Priority P3 49 critical 9.8 CVSS 3.1

AV N AC L PR N UI N S U C H I H A H

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.

Affected

5 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	libjgroups-java	—	—
redhat	jboss_enterprise_application_platform	—	—
redhat	jboss_enterprise_application_platform	—	—
redhat	jboss_enterprise_application_platform	—	—
redhat	jgroups	< 4.0	4.0

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 9.8 CRITICAL CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 7.5 HIGH AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

osv 9.8 CRITICAL

vendor_debian 9.8 LOW

vendor_redhat 9.8 CRITICAL

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