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CVE-2016-8737

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-8737 describes a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Apache Brooklyn versions prior to 0.10.0. This flaw allows a malicious website to trick an authenticated user into executing attacker-controlled commands on the Brooklyn server. Rated with a CVSS score of 8.8 (HIGH), the vulnerability has a network attack vector, low attack complexity, and can lead to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While a proof-of-concept exploit is known to exist, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 0.9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:brooklyn:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

8.8HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.32%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
67.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0132 is in the 67th percentile among its peer group of 14,848 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.apache.brooklyn:brooklyn-rest-resourcesFixed in: 0.10.0
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.apache.brooklyn:brooklyn-jsguiFixed in: 0.10.0

Vendor Advisories (1)

mavenGHSA-g2hf-g7fh-vg92high

Apache Brooklyn is vulnerable to cross-site request forgery (CSRF)

May 17, 2022

References

brooklyn.apache.org / community/security/CVE-2016-8737.html
MitigationPatchVendor Advisory
lists.apache.org / thread.html/877813aaaa0e636adbc36106b89a54e0e6918f0884e9c8b67d5d5953%40%3Cdev.brooklyn.apache.org%3E
securityfocus.com / bid/96228
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry