# CVE-2016-8648: It was found that the Karaf container used by Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6.x, and Red Hat JBoss A-MQ 6.x, deserializes objects passed to MBeans via

- Severity: CVSS 7.2 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2018-08-01 · Updated: 2024-08-06

## Affected

- Apache Software Foundation Karaf: As shipped with Jboss Fuse 6.x

## Description

It was found that the Karaf container used by Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6.x, and Red Hat JBoss A-MQ 6.x, deserializes objects passed to MBeans via JMX operations. An attacker could use this flaw to execute remote code on the server as the user running the Java Virtual Machine if the target MBean contain deserialization gadgets in its classpath.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Apache Software Foundation Karaf, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94513
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8648

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