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CVE-2016-7065

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-7065 describes a critical deserialization vulnerability in the JMX servlet of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) versions 4 and 5. This flaw allows remote authenticated attackers to achieve denial of service and potentially execute arbitrary code by submitting a specially crafted serialized Java object. With a CVSS score of 8.8 (High), the vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity and requires only low privileges, leading to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not observed in active exploitation (KEV), public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:4.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:5.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

8.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
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
12.47%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
95.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-40842 · Nov 28, 2016
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1247 is in the 95th percentile among its peer group of 17,823 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Remediation

Vendor Patches (5)

redhatvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 4Fixed in: jbossas
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5Fixed in: jbossas
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss SOA Platform 4Fixed in: jbossas
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss SOA Platform 5Fixed in: jbossas

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2016-7065Moderate

JBoss EAP 5 JMX servlet deserializes Java objects sent via HTTP

Oct 7, 2016

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingVendor Advisory
seclists.org / fulldisclosure/2016/Nov/143
exploit-db.com / exploits/40842
securityfocus.com / bid/93462
Third Party Advisory