CVE-2019-0187
highpriority · track · 40OT risk · elevatedEPSS 0.026 · 85 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
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.
cvss
Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.
base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · high–critical · 7.5–9.8
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affected products (4)
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advisories (1)
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- GHSA-wg37-7mrv-cfwmUnauthenticated Remote Code Execution in Apache JMeter2019-03-07ghsa · osvUS
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.
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references (15)
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- http://mail-archives.apache.org/modcnnvd
- http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/jmeter-user/201903.mbox/%3CCAH9fUpaUQaFbgY1Zh4OvKSL4wdvGAmVt%2Bn4fegibDoAxK5XARw%40mail.gmail.com%3Ecnnvd
- http://mail-archives.us.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201903.mbox/%3CCAH9fUpaUQaFbgY1Zh4OvKSL4wdvGAmVt+n4fegibDoAxK5XARw@mail.gmail.com%3E[SECURITY]CVE-2019-0187:ApacheJMeterMissingclientauthforRMIconnectionwhendistributedtestisusedcnnvd
- http://www.apache.org/cnnvd
- http://www.nsfocus.net/vulndb/43668cnnvd
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107219cnnvd
- https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62743Patchcnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-0187cnnvd
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