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CVE-2016-8735

97
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-8735 is a critical remote code execution vulnerability affecting Apache Tomcat versions before 6.0.48, 7.0.73, 8.0.39, 8.5.7, and 9.0.0.M12, specifically when the JmxRemoteLifecycleListener is enabled and JMX ports are accessible. This flaw stems from an incomplete patch for a prior Oracle vulnerability (CVE-2016-3427) regarding credential types. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (Critical), this vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code with high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. It is actively exploited in the wild, listed in CISA's KEV catalog, and has a high EPSS score, indicating a significant likelihood of exploitation, with community discussion and Nuclei templates available for detection.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 6.0.48CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 7.0.0, < 7.0.73CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 8.0, < 8.0.39CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 8.5.0, < 8.5.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:9.0.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

9.8CRITICAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
90.34%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
99.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
Added to KEV · May 12, 2023
Nuclei: CVE-2016-8735 · Nov 10, 2024
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.9034 is in the 99th percentile among its peer group of 36,835 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

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

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (34)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalinaFixed in: 6.0.48
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalinaFixed in: 7.0.73
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalinaFixed in: 8.0.39
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalinaFixed in: 8.5.7
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalinaFixed in: 9.0.0.M12
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina-jmx-remoteFixed in: 6.0.48
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina-jmx-remoteFixed in: 7.0.73
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina-jmx-remoteFixed in: 8.0.39
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina-jmx-remoteFixed in: 8.5.7
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina-jmx-remoteFixed in: 9.0.0.M12
oraclepatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: jbcs-httpd24-0:1-3.jbcs.el6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: jbcs-httpd24-apache-commons-daemon-0:1.0.15-1.redhat_2.1.jbcs.el6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: jbcs-httpd24-apache-commons-daemon-jsvc-1:1.0.15-17.redhat_2.jbcs.el6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: mod_cluster-0:1.3.5-2.Final_redhat_2.1.ep7.el6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: tomcat7-0:7.0.70-16.ep7.el6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: tomcat8-0:8.0.36-17.ep7.el6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: tomcat-native-0:1.2.8-9.redhat_9.ep7.el6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: tomcat-vault-0:1.0.8-9.Final_redhat_2.1.ep7.el6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: hibernate4-eap6-0:4.2.23-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep6.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: jbcs-httpd24-0:1-3.jbcs.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: jbcs-httpd24-apache-commons-daemon-0:1.0.15-1.redhat_2.1.jbcs.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: jbcs-httpd24-apache-commons-daemon-jsvc-1:1.0.15-17.redhat_2.jbcs.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: mod_cluster-0:1.3.5-2.Final_redhat_2.1.ep7.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: tomcat7-0:7.0.70-16.ep7.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: tomcat8-0:8.0.36-17.ep7.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: tomcat-native-0:1.2.8-9.redhat_9.ep7.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: tomcat-vault-0:1.0.8-9.Final_redhat_2.1.ep7.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: hibernate4-eap6-0:4.2.23-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep6.el6
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 2Fixed in: tomcat7
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3Fixed in: tomcat7
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3Fixed in: tomcat8
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 2Fixed in: tomcat6

Vendor Advisories (2)

mavenGHSA-cw54-59pw-4g8ccritical

Apache Tomcat Improper Access Control vulnerability

May 13, 2022
redhatCVE-2016-8735Important

tomcat: Remote code execution vulnerability in JmxRemoteLifecycleListener

Nov 22, 2016

References

cisa.gov / known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
US Government Resource
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017-0457.html
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017:0455
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017:0456
Third Party Advisory
seclists.org / oss-sec/2016/q4/502
Mailing ListMitigationThird Party Advisory
lists.apache.org / thread.html/343558d982879bf88ec20dbf707f8c11255f8e219e81d45c4f8d0551%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
Mailing ListPatch
lists.apache.org / thread.html/37220405a377c0182d2afdbc36461c4783b2930fbeae3a17f1333113%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
Mailing ListPatch
lists.apache.org / thread.html/388a323769f1dff84c9ec905455aa73fbcb20338e3c7eb131457f708%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
Mailing ListPatch
lists.apache.org / thread.html/39ae1f0bd5867c15755a6f959b271ade1aea04ccdc3b2e639dcd903b%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
Mailing ListPatch
lists.apache.org / thread.html/3d19773b4cf0377db62d1e9328bf9160bf1819f04f988315086931d7%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
Mailing ListPatch
lists.apache.org / thread.html/6af47120905aa7d8fe12f42e8ff2284fb338ba141d3b77b8c7cb61b3%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
Mailing ListPatch
lists.apache.org / thread.html/845312a10aabbe2c499fca94003881d2c79fc993d85f34c1f5c77424%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
Mailing ListPatch
lists.apache.org / thread.html/88855876c33f2f9c532ffb75bfee570ccf0b17ffa77493745af9a17a%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
Mailing ListPatch
lists.apache.org / thread.html/b5e3f51d28cd5d9b1809f56594f2cf63dcd6a90429e16ea9f83bbedc%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
Mailing ListPatch
lists.apache.org / thread.html/b84ad1258a89de5c9c853c7f2d3ad77e5b8b2930be9e132d5cef6b95%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
Mailing ListPatch
lists.apache.org / thread.html/b8a1bf18155b552dcf9a928ba808cbadad84c236d85eab3033662cfb%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
Mailing ListPatch
lists.apache.org / thread.html/r03c597a64de790ba42c167efacfa23300c3d6c9fe589ab87fe02859c%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
Mailing ListPatch
lists.apache.org / thread.html/r587e50b86c1a96ee301f751d50294072d142fd6dc08a8987ae9f3a9b%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
Mailing ListPatch
lists.apache.org / thread.html/r9136ff5b13e4f1941360b5a309efee2c114a14855578c3a2cbe5d19c%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
Mailing ListPatch
security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20180607-0001
Third Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 4557-1
Third Party Advisory
svn.apache.org / viewvc
Broken LinkPatch
svn.apache.org / viewvc
Broken LinkPatch
svn.apache.org / viewvc
Broken LinkPatch
svn.apache.org / viewvc
Broken LinkPatch
oracle.com / technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html
PatchThird Party Advisory
oracle.com / technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2019-5072835.html
PatchThird Party Advisory
tomcat.apache.org / security-6.html
Release NotesVendor Advisory
tomcat.apache.org / security-7.html
Release NotesVendor Advisory
tomcat.apache.org / security-8.html
Release NotesVendor Advisory
tomcat.apache.org / security-9.html
Release NotesVendor Advisory
debian.org / security/2016/dsa-3738
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
oracle.com / technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2018-3236628.html
PatchThird Party Advisory
oracle.com / technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2018-4258247.html
PatchThird Party Advisory
oracle.com / technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2017-3236626.html
PatchThird Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/94463
Broken LinkThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1037331
Broken LinkThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry