VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-5422

high
Published 2016-09-07 · Modified 2026-05-06
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

The web console in Red Hat JBoss Operations Network (JON) before 3.3.7 does not properly authorize requests to add users with the super user role, which allows remote authenticated users to gain admin privileges via a crafted POST request.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
92%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1785.html

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
redhatjboss_operations_network{"endIncluding":"3.3.6"}

References

CWEs

CWE-264

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