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CVE-2016-0793

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-0793 is an incomplete blacklist vulnerability in WildFly (formerly JBoss Application Server) on Windows, allowing remote attackers to read sensitive files within WEB-INF or META-INF directories. This high-severity vulnerability (CVSS 7.5) is easily exploitable over the network with no user interaction, leading to high confidentiality impact. While not actively exploited in the wild, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
10.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:jboss_wildfly_application_server:10.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.5HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
15.57%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
96.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-39573 · Mar 20, 2016
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1557 is in the 95th percentile among its peer group of 51,553 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.wildfly:wildfly-parentFixed in: 10.0.0.Final
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.wildfly:wildfly-undertowFixed in: 10.0.0.Final
redhatvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (2)

mavenGHSA-9q87-22gr-r8qfhigh

WildFly has incomplete blacklist vulnerability

May 14, 2022
redhatCVE-2016-0793Moderate

wildfly: WEB-INF and META-INF Information Disclosure via Filter Restriction Bypass

Feb 11, 2016

References

packetstormsecurity.com / files/136323/Wildfly-Filter-Restriction-Bypass-Information-Disclosure.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Vendor Advisory
security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20180215-0001
support.hpe.com / hpsc/doc/public/display
exploit-db.com / exploits/39573