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CVE-2016-8648

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-8648 describes a deserialization vulnerability in Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6.x and JBoss A-MQ 6.x, where the Karaf container improperly deserializes objects passed to MBeans via JMX operations. This flaw carries a high CVSS score of 7.2 due to its network-based attack vector, low attack complexity, and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, allowing for remote code execution as the JVM user. While the vulnerability is severe, 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
6.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:jboss_a-mq:6.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:jboss_fuse:6.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.2HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.2
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.00%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
78.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0200 is in the 74th percentile among its peer group of 5,528 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.3 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 (3)

redhatworkaround availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss A-MQ 6Fixed in: Karaf
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6Fixed in: karaf

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2016-8648Moderate

Karaf JMX Console RCE during deserialization

Nov 24, 2016

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingMitigationThird Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/94513
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry