CVE-2016-8648

mediumpriority · track · 30EPSS 0.020 · 80 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

1.98% (80th) EPSS

CVSS 6.5 · medium

Is it mine?

3 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.2

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.5–7.2

v2.06.5mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8 · impact 6.4

v3.07.2highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1.2 · impact 5.9

v3.07.2highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.07.2highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · secalert@redhat.com USexploitability 1.2 · impact 5.9

v3.06.6mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-502US

affected products (3)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Apache Software Foundation Karaf≤ As shipped with Jboss Fuse 6.xenisa_euvdEU
redhat jboss a-mq= 6.0.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:redhat:jboss_a-mq:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat jboss fuse= 6.0.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:redhat:jboss_fuse:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2018-08-01modified 2026-06-17

references (7)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8648 cnnvd
https://www.redhat.com/Patchcnnvd
https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94513 cnnvd
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94513 enisa_euvd
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8648 enisa_euvd
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94513Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entrynvd
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8648Issue TrackingMitigationThird Party Advisorynvd

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