CVE-2016-8735
KEVCRITICAL 9.8EPSS 90.3%
Remote code execution is possible with Apache Tomcat before 6.0.48, 7.x before 7.0.73, 8.x before 8.0.39, 8.5.x before 8.5.7, and 9.x before 9.0.0.M12 if JmxRemoteLifecycleListener is used and an attacker can reach JMX ports. The issue exists because this listener wasn't updated for consistency with the CVE-2016-3427 Oracle patch that affected credential types.
- CVSS v3.1
- 9.8 CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - CVSS v3.1
- 9.8 CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - CVSS v3.0
- 9.8 CRITICAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:H - CVSS v2.0
- 7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P - EPSS
- 90.34% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 100th percentile
- CISA KEV
- added 2023-05-12
- Nuclei
- critical
- Published
- 2017-04-06
- Updated
- 2025-10-21
Proof-of-concept exploits (5)
- QChiLan/jexboss0★ · 2019-08-15
- gyanaa/https-github.com-joaomatosf-jexboss1★ · 2018-10-25
- milkdevil/jexboss0★ · 2018-01-21
- qashqao/jexboss0★ · 2018-10-19
- syadg123/exboss0★ · 2020-04-08