CVE-2016-3427

95

FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-3427 is an unspecified critical vulnerability in Oracle Java SE, Java SE Embedded, and JRockit, specifically impacting versions 6u113, 7u99, 8u77, and R28.3.9 respectively, related to JMX. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), it allows unauthenticated remote attackers to fully compromise confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity. This vulnerability is actively exploited in the wild, as indicated by its presence in CISA's KEV catalog, and has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, despite a lack of public exploit code on platforms like Metasploit or ExploitDB.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		1.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:oracle:jdk:1.6.0:update113::::::
		1.7.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:oracle:jdk:1.7.0:update99::::::
		1.8.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:oracle:jdk:1.8.0:update77::::::
		1.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:oracle:jre:1.6.0:update113::::::
		1.7.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:oracle:jre:1.7.0:update99::::::

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

9.8CRITICAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Exploitability Score

3.9

Impact Score

5.9

CvssVersion

3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

92.33%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

99.8%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-24

Model: v2026.06.15

Added to KEV · May 12, 2023

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.9233 is in the 99th percentile among its peer group of 36,829 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (31)

oraclepatch availablevia nvd_reference

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.6.0-sun-1:1.6.0.115-1jpp.1.el5_11

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.8.0-oracle-1:1.8.0.91-1jpp.1.el6_7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.7.0-oracle-1:1.7.0.101-1jpp.1.el6_7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.6.0-sun-1:1.6.0.115-1jpp.1.el6_7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: java-1.8.0-oracle-1:1.8.0.91-1jpp.1.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: java-1.7.0-oracle-1:1.7.0.101-1jpp.1.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: java-1.6.0-sun-1:1.6.0.115-1jpp.1.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.7.0-openjdk-1:1.7.0.101-2.6.6.1.el5_11

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.6.0-openjdk-1:1.6.0.39-1.13.11.0.el5_11

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 SupplementaryFixed in: java-1.7.0-ibm-1:1.7.0.9.40-1jpp.1.el5

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 SupplementaryFixed in: java-1.6.0-ibm-1:1.6.0.16.25-1jpp.1.el5

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.8.0-openjdk-1:1.8.0.91-0.b14.el6_7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.7.0-openjdk-1:1.7.0.101-2.6.6.1.el6_7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.6.0-openjdk-1:1.6.0.39-1.13.11.0.el6_7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.7.0-oracle-1:1.7.0.101-1jpp.1.el5_11

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 SupplementaryFixed in: java-1.6.0-ibm-1:1.6.0.16.25-1jpp.1.el6_7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 SupplementaryFixed in: java-1.8.0-ibm-1:1.8.0.3.0-1jpp.1.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: java-1.8.0-openjdk-1:1.8.0.91-0.b14.el7_2

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: java-1.7.0-openjdk-1:1.7.0.101-2.6.6.1.el7_2

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: java-1.6.0-openjdk-1:1.6.0.39-1.13.11.0.el7_2

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 SupplementaryFixed in: java-1.7.1-ibm-1:1.7.1.3.40-1jpp.1.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 SupplementaryFixed in: java-1.8.0-ibm-1:1.8.0.3.0-1jpp.1.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Satellite 5.6Fixed in: java-1.7.0-ibm-1:1.7.0.9.40-1jpp.1.el5

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Satellite 5.6Fixed in: java-1.7.1-ibm-1:1.7.1.3.40-1jpp.1.el6_7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Satellite 5.6Fixed in: spacewalk-java-0:2.0.2-109.el6sat

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Satellite 5.6Fixed in: java-1.7.1-ibm-1:1.7.1.4.1-1jpp.1.el6_8

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Satellite 5.7Fixed in: java-1.7.1-ibm-1:1.7.1.3.40-1jpp.1.el6_7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Satellite 5.7Fixed in: spacewalk-java-0:2.3.8-146.el6sat

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Satellite 5.7Fixed in: java-1.7.1-ibm-1:1.7.1.4.1-1jpp.1.el6_8

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 SupplementaryFixed in: java-1.7.1-ibm-1:1.7.1.3.40-1jpp.1.el6_7

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2016-3427Critical

OpenJDK: unrestricted deserialization of authentication credentials (JMX, 8144430)

References

cisa.gov / known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog

US Government Resource

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00006.html

Mailing ListThird Party Advisory

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00009.html

Mailing ListThird Party Advisory

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00012.html

Mailing ListThird Party Advisory

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00021.html

Mailing ListThird Party Advisory

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00022.html

Mailing ListThird Party Advisory

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00026.html

Mailing ListThird Party Advisory

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00027.html

Mailing ListThird Party Advisory

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00039.html

Mailing ListThird Party Advisory

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00040.html

Mailing ListThird Party Advisory

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00042.html

Mailing ListThird Party Advisory

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00058.html

Mailing ListThird Party Advisory

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00059.html

Mailing ListThird Party Advisory

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00061.html

Mailing ListThird Party Advisory

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00067.html

Mailing ListThird Party Advisory

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00002.html

Mailing ListThird Party Advisory

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-0650.html

Third Party Advisory

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-0651.html

Third Party Advisory

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-0675.html

Third Party Advisory

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-0676.html

Third Party Advisory

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-0677.html

Third Party Advisory

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-0678.html

Third Party Advisory

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-0679.html

Third Party Advisory

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-0701.html

Third Party Advisory

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-0702.html

Third Party Advisory

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-0708.html

Third Party Advisory

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-0716.html

Third Party Advisory

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-0723.html

Third Party Advisory

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-1039.html

Third Party Advisory

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016:1430

Third Party Advisory

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017:1216

Third Party Advisory

kc.mcafee.com / corporate/index

Broken Link

lists.apache.org / thread.html/343558d982879bf88ec20dbf707f8c11255f8e219e81d45c4f8d0551%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E

Mailing ListPatch

lists.apache.org / thread.html/37220405a377c0182d2afdbc36461c4783b2930fbeae3a17f1333113%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E

Mailing ListPatch

lists.apache.org / thread.html/388a323769f1dff84c9ec905455aa73fbcb20338e3c7eb131457f708%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E

Mailing ListPatch

lists.apache.org / thread.html/39ae1f0bd5867c15755a6f959b271ade1aea04ccdc3b2e639dcd903b%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E

Mailing ListPatch

lists.apache.org / thread.html/3d19773b4cf0377db62d1e9328bf9160bf1819f04f988315086931d7%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E

Mailing ListPatch

lists.apache.org / thread.html/6af47120905aa7d8fe12f42e8ff2284fb338ba141d3b77b8c7cb61b3%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E

Mailing ListPatch

lists.apache.org / thread.html/845312a10aabbe2c499fca94003881d2c79fc993d85f34c1f5c77424%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E

Mailing ListPatch

lists.apache.org / thread.html/88855876c33f2f9c532ffb75bfee570ccf0b17ffa77493745af9a17a%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E

Mailing ListPatch

lists.apache.org / thread.html/b5e3f51d28cd5d9b1809f56594f2cf63dcd6a90429e16ea9f83bbedc%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E

Mailing ListPatch

lists.apache.org / thread.html/b84ad1258a89de5c9c853c7f2d3ad77e5b8b2930be9e132d5cef6b95%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E

Mailing ListPatch

lists.apache.org / thread.html/b8a1bf18155b552dcf9a928ba808cbadad84c236d85eab3033662cfb%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E

Mailing ListPatch

lists.apache.org / thread.html/r03c597a64de790ba42c167efacfa23300c3d6c9fe589ab87fe02859c%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E

Mailing ListPatch

lists.apache.org / thread.html/r587e50b86c1a96ee301f751d50294072d142fd6dc08a8987ae9f3a9b%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E

Mailing ListPatch

lists.apache.org / thread.html/r5f48b16573a11fdf0b557cc3d1d71423ecde8ee771c29f32334fa948%40%3Cdev.cassandra.apache.org%3E

Mailing ListThird Party Advisory

lists.apache.org / thread.html/r9136ff5b13e4f1941360b5a309efee2c114a14855578c3a2cbe5d19c%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E

Mailing ListPatch

lists.apache.org / thread.html/rc3abf40b06c511d5693baf707d6444bf7745e6a1e343e6f530a12258%40%3Cuser.cassandra.apache.org%3E

Mailing ListThird Party Advisory

security.gentoo.org / glsa/201606-18

Third Party Advisory

security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20160420-0001

Third Party Advisory

debian.org / security/2016/dsa-3558

Mailing ListThird Party Advisory

openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2020/08/31/1

Mailing List

oracle.com / technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2016v3-2985753.html

PatchVendor Advisory

oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html

PatchThird Party Advisory

securityfocus.com / bid/86421

Broken LinkThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

securitytracker.com / id/1035596

Broken LinkThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

securitytracker.com / id/1037331

Broken LinkThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2963-1

Third Party Advisory

ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2964-1

Third Party Advisory

ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2972-1

Third Party Advisory