CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-6330

Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Published: Sep 27, 2016 | Modified: Apr 12, 2025
CVSS 3.x
9.8
CRITICAL
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
9 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:C
RedHat/V2
9 CRITICAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:C
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

The server in Red Hat JBoss Operations Network (JON), when SSL authentication is not configured for JON server / agent communication, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTTP request, related to message deserialization. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-3737.

Weakness

The product deserializes untrusted data without sufficiently ensuring that the resulting data will be valid.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Jboss_operations_network Redhat 3.0 (including) 3.0 (including)
Jboss_operations_network Redhat 3.0.1 (including) 3.0.1 (including)
Jboss_operations_network Redhat 3.1 (including) 3.1 (including)
Jboss_operations_network Redhat 3.1.1 (including) 3.1.1 (including)
Jboss_operations_network Redhat 3.1.2 (including) 3.1.2 (including)
Jboss_operations_network Redhat 3.1.4 (including) 3.1.4 (including)
Jboss_operations_network Redhat 3.2.0 (including) 3.2.0 (including)
Jboss_operations_network Redhat 3.2.1 (including) 3.2.1 (including)
Jboss_operations_network Redhat 3.2.2 (including) 3.2.2 (including)
Jboss_operations_network Redhat 3.2.3 (including) 3.2.3 (including)
Jboss_operations_network Redhat 3.3.1 (including) 3.3.1 (including)
Jboss_operations_network Redhat 3.3.2 (including) 3.3.2 (including)
Jboss_operations_network Redhat 3.3.3 (including) 3.3.3 (including)
Jboss_operations_network Redhat 3.3.4 (including) 3.3.4 (including)
Jboss_operations_network Redhat 3.3.5 (including) 3.3.5 (including)
Jboss_operations_network Redhat 3.3.6 (including) 3.3.6 (including)

Potential Mitigations

  • Make fields transient to protect them from deserialization.
  • An attempt to serialize and then deserialize a class containing transient fields will result in NULLs where the transient data should be. This is an excellent way to prevent time, environment-based, or sensitive variables from being carried over and used improperly.

References