CVE-2016-2141
It was found that JGroups did not require necessary headers for encrypt and auth protocols from new nodes joining the cluster. An attacker…
- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 4.7%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 8.1% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
It was found that JGroups did not require necessary headers for encrypt and auth protocols from new nodes joining the cluster. An attacker could use this flaw to bypass security restrictions, and use this vulnerability to send and receive messages within the cluster, leading to information disclosure, message spoofing, or further possible attacks.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 5 months later
· 5 months later
Published
- 8 years later
· 8 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.7% · top 8.1% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.jgroups:jgroupsGHSA-rc7h-x6cq-988q (opens in a new tab)
References
25
- RHSA-2016:1347 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:2035 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:1389 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:1345 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:1376 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:1330 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:1439 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:1331 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- 91481 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:1434 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:1328 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:1433 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JGRP-2021 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- RHSA-2016:1374 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:1432 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:1346 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:1334 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:1333 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:1329 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:1332 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:1435 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- 1036165 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- [geode-dev] 20200407 JGroups vulnerabilty (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- [geode-dev] 20200407 Re: JGroups vulnerabilty (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-5146 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-rc7h-x6cq-988q (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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