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CVE-2016-7041

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-7041 describes a path traversal vulnerability in Red Hat JBoss BRMS and JBoss Drools Workbench, allowing an authenticated attacker to bypass directory restrictions and retrieve arbitrary files from the host. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) requires network access and low privileges, leading to a high impact on confidentiality. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage, indicating a low current threat landscape.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
6.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:jboss_brms:6.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:jboss_drools:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.96%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
89.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0396 is in the 97th percentile among its peer group of 21,957 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss BPMS 6.3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6.3
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat BPM Suite 6Fixed in: workbench
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6Fixed in: workbench

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2016-7041Moderate

Workbench: Path traversal vulnerability

Nov 28, 2016

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-2822.html
Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-2823.html
Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-2937.html
Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-2938.html
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/94566
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1037406
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry