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CVE-2018-12533
JBoss RichFaces 3.1.0 through 3.3.4 allows unauthenticated remote attackers to inject expression language (EL) expressions and execute…
- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 18.7%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 2.7% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
JBoss RichFaces 3.1.0 through 3.3.4 allows unauthenticated remote attackers to inject expression language (EL) expressions and execute arbitrary Java code via a /DATA/ substring in a path with an org.richfaces.renderkit.html.Paint2DResource$ImageData object, aka RF-14310.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 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 | 3.0 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 18.7% · top 2.7% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
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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.richfaces:richfaces-coreGHSA-4j38-wjhf-884r (opens in a new tab)
References
References7
- RHSA-2018:2664 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 1041617 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- https://codewhitesec.blogspot.com/2018/05/poor-richfaces.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:2663 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 104502 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:2930 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 20200313 RichFaces exploitation toolkit (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_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-2022-2391 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-4j38-wjhf-884r (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2018-12533)Record last updated .