CVE-2016-3088

CRITICALNVD 9.89.8
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

Score elevated to 9.8 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2022-02-10), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. NVD baseline CVSS 9.8 retained for reference. Confidence: HIGH.

Triggered by: CISA KEV (actively exploited)
Sources: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Exploited in the wild

Also known asEUVD-2022-5255 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-rxqh-fc23-gxp2 (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPatch nowTreat as an emergency — this is being exploited.
  • Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV) — the reason this is sooner than the SSVC decision on this page at low mission impact
CISA-KEV: ExploitedEPSS PROB: 98%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: Metasploit · Exploit-DB (verified) · other public PoCExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

The Fileserver web application in Apache ActiveMQ 5.x before 5.14.0 allows remote attackers to upload and execute arbitrary files via an HTTP PUT followed by an HTTP MOVE request.

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALhigh confidence
EG Risk
99
EG Risk 99/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity98% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation100% × 40%
Fixed at 100% for a CISA KEV listing: EchelonGraph's rule.
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Attend at low mission impact; Act at medium or high.
Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it sooner than your standard update timelines at low mission impact and as soon as possible at medium or high.
EPSS PROB
98%
EPSS %ILE
99th
KEV
⚠ Exploited

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.8 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
98% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-12). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
CISA KEV and EG-KEV Tier 1 (exploited in the wild)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Act at medium mission impactAttend at low mission impact; Act at medium or high.CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 3 days & forensic triage if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Attend at low mission impact; Act at medium or high.

A fix is available. Apply it sooner than your standard update timelines at low mission impact and as soon as possible at medium or high.

Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 3 days & forensic triage if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV yes (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

CISA required action“Apply updates per vendor instructions.”

Quoted verbatim from CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. CISA directs it at US federal civilian executive branch agencies under Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 26-04, which replaced BOD 22-01 on 10 June 2026; it is not EchelonGraph's advice. CISA's notes: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-3088

Published

June 1, 2016

Last Modified

June 17, 2026

Patch Availability(3)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
redhatpatch2016-10-06redhat
redhatpatch2015-06-23redhat
mavenorg.apache.activemq:activemq-client @ 5.14.0 (fixes >= 5.0.0, < 5.14.0)—ghsa

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(4 across 4 ecosystems)
Debian:11(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
activemq—
  • every version up to 5.14.0+dfsg-1: fixed in 5.14.0+dfsg-1
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Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
activemq—
  • every version up to 5.14.0+dfsg-1: fixed in 5.14.0+dfsg-1
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Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
activemq—
  • every version up to 5.14.0+dfsg-1: fixed in 5.14.0+dfsg-1
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Maven(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
org.apache.activemq:activemq-client5.10.0 ... 5.9.1 (21 versions)
  • 5.0.0 up to 5.14.0: fixed in 5.14.0
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Weakness Classification(2)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 14× in last 7d / 46× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed its CVE.org record (CNA or CISA ADP). An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). "EchelonGraph re-scored" is our own recompute of this CVE's score, not an update from a source, and is not counted in the refreshes above. Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 1,040 rows on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 940 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-12 19:02 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  2. 2026-11-12 19:02 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-11-12 19:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-rxqh-fc23-gxp2 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  4. 2026-11-11 16:58 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  5. 2026-11-11 16:58 UTCVendor advisory
  6. 2026-11-11 16:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-rxqh-fc23-gxp2 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  7. 2026-11-10 14:54 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  8. 2026-11-10 14:54 UTCVendor advisory
  9. 2026-11-10 14:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-rxqh-fc23-gxp2 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  10. 2026-11-09 12:51 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  11. 2026-11-09 12:51 UTCVendor advisory
  12. 2026-11-09 12:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-rxqh-fc23-gxp2 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  13. 2026-11-08 10:47 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  14. 2026-11-08 10:47 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-11-08 10:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-rxqh-fc23-gxp2 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  16. 2026-11-07 08:43 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  17. 2026-11-07 08:43 UTCVendor advisory
  18. 2026-11-07 08:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-rxqh-fc23-gxp2 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  19. 2026-11-06 06:40 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  20. 2026-11-06 06:40 UTCVendor advisory
  21. 2026-11-06 06:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-rxqh-fc23-gxp2 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  22. 2026-11-05 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 98% · 99th percentile
  23. 2026-11-05 04:37 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  24. 2026-11-05 04:37 UTCVendor advisory
  25. 2026-11-05 04:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-rxqh-fc23-gxp2 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  1. 2026-11-04 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
  2. 2026-11-04 02:33 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  3. 2026-11-04 02:33 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-11-04 02:33 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-rxqh-fc23-gxp2 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  5. 2026-11-03 00:30 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  6. 2026-11-03 00:30 UTCVendor advisory
  7. 2026-11-03 00:30 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-rxqh-fc23-gxp2 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  8. 2026-11-02 10:55 UTCOSV refresh
  9. 2026-11-01 22:26 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  10. 2026-11-01 22:26 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-11-01 22:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-rxqh-fc23-gxp2 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  12. 2026-11-01 08:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-rxqh-fc23-gxp2 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  13. 2026-11-01 08:47 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
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  15. 2026-10-31 20:23 UTCVendor advisory
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  17. 2026-10-30 18:20 UTCVendor advisory
  18. 2026-10-29 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
  19. 2026-10-29 16:16 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  20. 2026-10-29 16:16 UTCVendor advisory
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  27. 2026-10-25 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
  28. 2026-10-25 08:00 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  29. 2026-10-25 08:00 UTCVendor advisory
  30. 2026-10-24 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
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  32. 2026-10-24 05:56 UTCVendor advisory
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  49. 2026-10-14 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
  50. 2026-10-14 11:12 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  51. 2026-10-14 11:12 UTCVendor advisory
  52. 2026-10-13 09:07 UTCVendor advisory
  53. 2026-10-12 20:44 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  54. 2026-10-12 07:02 UTCVendor advisory
  55. 2026-10-12 03:15 UTCVendor advisory
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  57. 2026-10-11 19:42 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  58. 2026-10-11 19:42 UTCVendor advisory
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  75. 2026-10-09 11:25 UTCVendor advisory

Publicly available exploits

(9 references)

Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 Metasploit module, 2 Exploit-DB entries, 5 GitHub PoCs), as is 1 Nuclei detection template. A detection template checks whether a system is affected; it is not necessarily exploit code. Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly.

  • Exploit-DBEDB-42283✓ verified
    Published Jun 29, 2017

    ActiveMQ < 5.14.0 - Web Shell Upload (Metasploit)

    Open source ↗
  • Metasploitexploit/multi/http/apache_activemq_upload_jsp✓ verified
    Published Jun 28, 2017

    ActiveMQ web shell upload

    Open source ↗
  • Exploit-DBEDB-40857✓ verified
    Published Aug 17, 2015

    Apache ActiveMQ 5.11.1/5.13.2 - Directory Traversal / Command Execution

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCCatherines77/ActiveMQ-EXPtools
    Published Apr 20, 2026

    Apache ActiveMQ漏洞综合利用工具(CVE-2015-5254,CVE-2016-3088,CVE-2022-41678,CVE-2023-46604,CVE-2024-32114,CVE-2026-34197,CVE-2026-40466)

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCYutuSec/ActiveMQ_Crack
    Published Apr 2, 2022

    ActiveMQ系列漏洞探测利用工具,包括ActiveMQ 默认口令漏洞及ActiveMQ任意文件写入漏洞(CVE-2016-3088),支持批量探测利用。

    Open source ↗
  • Nucleihttp/cves/2016/CVE-2016-3088.yaml
    Published Nov 6, 2021

    Apache ActiveMQ Fileserver - Arbitrary File Write

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCcl4ym0re/CVE-2016-3088
    Published Jul 3, 2021

    Apache ActiveMQ PUT RCE Scan

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCcyberaguiar/CVE-2016-3088
    Published Mar 11, 2021

    Apache ActiveMQ Remote Code Execution Exploit

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCMa1Dong/ActiveMQ_putshell-CVE-2016-3088
    Published Jul 31, 2020

    ActiveMQ_putshell直接获取webshell

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(6)

What is CVE-2016-3088?
CVE-2016-3088 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on June 1, 2016. The Fileserver web application in Apache ActiveMQ 5.x before 5.14.0 allows remote attackers to upload and execute arbitrary files via an HTTP PUT followed by an HTTP MOVE request.
When was CVE-2016-3088 made public?
CVE-2016-3088 was made public on May 23, 2016: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, Red Hat, Inc., gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on June 1, 2016. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of June 17, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2016-3088 actively exploited?
Yes. CISA added CVE-2016-3088 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on February 10, 2022, affecting Apache ActiveMQ. KEV listing indicates confirmed exploitation in the wild; this CVE warrants immediate attention. A fix is available. Apply it.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2016-3088?
CVE-2016-3088 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (NVD).
Which products are affected by CVE-2016-3088?
CVE-2016-3088 affects Apache ActiveMQ. The affected packages EchelonGraph has on record, with version ranges, are listed in the Affected Packages section of this page.
How do I remediate CVE-2016-3088?
A fix for CVE-2016-3088 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2016-3088 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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