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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2016-2141

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 9.8EPSS 4.70%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (4.70%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

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.

CVSS 3.1
9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
4.70% probability · 91th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Affected
redhat/jgroups · redhat/jboss enterprise application platform
Source
secalert@redhat.com

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.