CVE-2016-4462

high
Published 2017-08-30 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
8.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
6.5
VIR risk
8.8

Description

By manipulating the URL parameter externalLoginKey, a malicious, logged in user could pass valid Freemarker directives to the Template Engine that are reflected on the webpage; a specially crafted Freemarker template could be used for remote code execution. Mitigation: Upgrade to Apache OFBiz 16.11.01

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
92%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
apache apacheofbiz11.04.02
apache apacheofbiz11.04
apache apacheofbiz11.04.01
apache apacheofbiz11.04.03
apache apacheofbiz11.04.04
apache apacheofbiz11.04.05
apache apacheofbiz11.04.06
apache apacheofbiz12.04
apache apacheofbiz12.04.01
apache apacheofbiz12.04.02
apache apacheofbiz12.04.03
apache apacheofbiz12.04.04
apache apacheofbiz12.04.05
apache apacheofbiz12.04.06
apache apacheofbiz13.07
apache apacheofbiz13.07.01
apache apacheofbiz13.07.02
apache apacheofbiz13.07.03

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.