CVE-2011-2196 Code injection in n/a
Medium 6.8
Published
Updated
Check this codebase for CVE-2011-2196 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2011-2196 is a medium-severity code injection vulnerability in Redhat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform, published on 27 Jul 2011. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2011-2196 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Affected product: Redhat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.
Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.
Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2011-2196/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2011-2196/index.md)
Remote attackers can execute arbitrary Java code via crafted URLs due to improper restriction of Expression Language statements in JBoss Seam.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2011-2196?
CVE-2011-2196 is a medium-severity code injection vulnerability in Redhat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform, published on 27 Jul 2011. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
jboss-seam.jar in the JBoss Seam 2 framework 2.2.x and earlier, as distributed in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 4.3.0.CP05 and 5.1.0; JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (aka JBoss EAP or JBEAP) 4.3.0, 4.3.0.CP09, and 5.1.1; and JBoss Enterprise Web Platform 5.1.1, does not properly restrict use of Expression Language (EL) statements in FacesMessages during page exception handling, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary Java code via a crafted URL to an application. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2011-1484.
Weakness: CWE-264
Which versions are affected by CVE-2011-2196?
It affects 4 products.
Linux distribution packages (40)
jboss-seam2 Red Hat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:4.3.0::el4 | All versions | 0:2.0.2.FP_SEC1-1.ep2.4.el4 |
jboss-seam2-docs Red Hat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:4.3.0::el4 | All versions | 0:2.0.2.FP_SEC1-1.ep2.4.el4 |
jboss-seam2 Red Hat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:4.3.0::el5 | All versions | 0:2.0.2.FP_SEC1-1.ep2.3.el5 |
jboss-seam2-docs Red Hat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:4.3.0::el5 | All versions | 0:2.0.2.FP_SEC1-1.ep2.3.el5 |
antlr Red Hat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:5::el4 | All versions | 0:2.7.7-7.ep5.el4 |
apache-cxf Red Hat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:5::el4 | All versions | 0:2.2.12-3.patch_01.ep5.el4 |
bcel Red Hat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:5::el4 | All versions | 0:5.2-8.1.ep5.el4 |
bsh2 Red Hat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:5::el4 | All versions | 0:2.0-0.b4.11.ep5.el4 |
bsh2-bsf Red Hat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:5::el4 | All versions | 0:2.0-0.b4.11.ep5.el4 |
codehaus-stax Red Hat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:5::el4 | All versions | 0:1.2.0-0.2.ep5.el4 |
codehaus-stax-api Red Hat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:5::el4 | All versions | 0:1.2.0-0.2.ep5.el4 |
concurrent Red Hat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:5::el4 | All versions | 0:1.3.4-10.1.4_jboss_update1.ep5.el4 |
dom4j Red Hat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:5::el4 | All versions | 0:1.6.1-11.ep5.el4 |
facelets Red Hat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:5::el4 | All versions | 0:1.1.15-1.B1.1.ep5.el4 |
glassfish-javamail Red Hat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:5::el4 | All versions | 0:1.4.2-0.4.ep5.el4 |
hibernate3 Red Hat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:5::el4 | All versions | 1:3.3.2-1.5.GA_CP04.ep5.el4 |
hibernate3-annotations Red Hat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:5::el4 | All versions | 0:3.4.0-3.3.GA_CP04.ep5.el4 |
hibernate3-annotations-javadoc Red Hat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:5::el4 | All versions | 0:3.4.0-3.3.GA_CP04.ep5.el4 |
hibernate3-commons-annotations Red Hat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:5::el4 | All versions | 0:3.1.0-1.8.ep5.el4 |
hibernate3-commons-annotations-javadoc Red Hat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:5::el4 | All versions | 0:3.1.0-1.8.ep5.el4 |
hibernate3-entitymanager Red Hat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:5::el4 | All versions | 0:3.4.0-4.3.GA_CP04.ep5.el4 |
hibernate3-entitymanager-javadoc Red Hat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:5::el4 | All versions | 0:3.4.0-4.3.GA_CP04.ep5.el4 |
hibernate3-javadoc Red Hat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:5::el4 | All versions | 1:3.3.2-1.5.GA_CP04.ep5.el4 |
hibernate3-search Red Hat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:5::el4 | All versions | 0:3.1.1-2.2.GA_CP04.ep5.el4 |
hibernate3-search-javadoc Red Hat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:5::el4 | All versions | 0:3.1.1-2.2.GA_CP04.ep5.el4 |
hibernate3-validator Red Hat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:5::el4 | All versions | 0:3.1.0-1.5.4.ep5.el4 |
hibernate3-validator-javadoc Red Hat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:5::el4 | All versions | 0:3.1.0-1.5.4.ep5.el4 |
hornetq-jopr-plugin Red Hat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:5::el4 | All versions | 0:2.0.0-0.Final.1.ep5.el4 |
hsqldb Red Hat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:5::el4 | All versions | 1:1.8.0.10-9_patch_01.2.ep5.el4 |
jacorb-jboss Red Hat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:5::el4 | All versions | 0:2.3.1-9.patch02.2.ep5.el4 |
jakarta-commons-collections Red Hat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:5::el4 | All versions | 0:3.2.1-4.ep5.el4 |
jakarta-commons-collections-tomcat5 Red Hat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:5::el4 | All versions | 0:3.2.1-4.ep5.el4 |
jakarta-commons-dbcp Red Hat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:5::el4 | All versions | 0:1.2.1-16.4.ep5.el4 |
jakarta-commons-dbcp-tomcat5 Red Hat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:5::el4 | All versions | 0:1.2.1-16.4.ep5.el4 |
jakarta-commons-fileupload Red Hat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:5::el4 | All versions | 1:1.1.1-7.4.ep5.el4 |
jaxen Red Hat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:5::el4 | All versions | 0:1.1.2-6.ep5.el4 |
jboss-aop2 Red Hat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:5::el4 | All versions | 0:2.1.6-1.CP02.1.3.ep5.el4 |
jboss-aspects-build Red Hat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:5::el4 | All versions | 0:1.0.1-0.CR5.1.ep5.el4 |
jboss-cache-core Red Hat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:5::el4 | All versions | 0:3.2.7-5.1.ep5.el4 |
jboss-cluster-ha-server-api Red Hat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:5::el4 | All versions | 0:1.2.0-1.1.ep5.el4 |
Products include Redhat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform, Redhat Jboss Enterprise Soa Platform, Redhat Jboss Enterprise Web Platform, Redhat Jboss Seam 2 Framework.
How do I fix CVE-2011-2196?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.
Is CVE-2011-2196 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2011-2196 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Redhat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform
- CVE-2017-12149 Red Hat JBoss Application Server Remote Code Execution
- CVE-2010-1428 Red Hat JBoss Information Disclosure
- CVE-2010-0738 Red Hat JBoss Authentication Bypass
- CVE-2016-3690 Deserialization in n/a
- CVE-2017-7504 Deserialization in JBoss
All Redhat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform vulnerabilities
Sources
Also known as GHSA-6m4p-jvxh-733r, RHSA-2011:0945, RHSA-2011:0946, RHSA-2011:0947, RHSA-2011:0948, RHSA-2011:0950.