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CVE-2019-0187GHSA-WG37-7MRV-CFWM

Unauthenticated RCE is possible when JMeter is used in distributed mode (-r or -R command line options).

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Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 5.1
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

Unauthenticated RCE is possible when JMeter is used in distributed mode (-r or -R command line options). Attacker can establish a RMI connection to a jmeter-server using RemoteJMeterEngine and proceed with an attack using untrusted data deserialization. This only affect tests running in Distributed mode. Note that versions before 4.0 are not able to encrypt traffic between the nodes, nor authenticate the participating nodes so upgrade to JMeter 5.1 is also advised.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • Apache Software Foundation Apache JMeter

    Apache JMeter 4.0 to 5.0

  • org.apache.jmeter:ApacheJMeterMaven

    fixed in 5.1

References 2

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