CVE-2017-12149

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 2021-12-10), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. It is also listed on ENISA's EU Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue (Source: ENISA EUVD). NVD baseline CVSS 9.8 retained for reference. Confidence: HIGH.

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

Also known asEUVD-2017-3733 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-j5r3-wq62-8gp5 (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: ExploitedENISA EU KEV: Listed (Source: ENISA EUVD)EPSS PROB: 91%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: Metasploit · other public PoCExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

In Jboss Application Server as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Application Platform 5.2, it was found that the doFilter method in the ReadOnlyAccessFilter of the HTTP Invoker does not restrict classes for which it performs deserialization and thus allowing an attacker to execute arbitrary code via crafted serialized data.

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
91%
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
91% 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 ENISA EU KEV (Source: ENISA EUVD) 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.

ENISA EU KEV: listed July 14, 2025, reported by CERT Italia.

Source: ENISA EUVD (EU Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue), reproduced with acknowledgement. How a listing moves the EG score

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-2017-12149

Published

October 4, 2017

Last Modified

October 7, 2026

Advisory Details (5)

Auto-updated Nov 6, 2026
⚠️ Actively exploited (CISA KEV, CISA Vulnrichment). Patch available. Sources: redhat.
Web page

Exploits/CVE-2017-12149 at master · gottburgm/Exploits · GitHub

https://github.com/gottburgm/Exploits/tree/master/CVE-2017-12149
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)

1486220 – (CVE-2017-12149) CVE-2017-12149 jbossas: Arbitrary code execution via unrestricted deserialization in ReadOnlyAccessFilter of HTTP Invoker.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1486220
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1608
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)

Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1607
Web page

PSIRT.COM — Product Security Incident Response Team

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100591

Patch Availability(2)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
redhatjbossas-0:5.2.0-24.ep5.el62018-05-17redhat
redhateap-parent2018-05-17redhat

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.

Weakness Classification(1)

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

All Vendor Advisories

(2)

Every vendor that published an advisory referencing this CVE — pulled from our cve_vendor_advisories aggregation. Click any row for the vendor's original advisory page.

Data Freshness Timeline

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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.

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  1. 2026-11-12 16:50 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  2. 2026-11-12 16:50 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-11-12 16:50 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j5r3-wq62-8gp5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  4. 2026-11-11 17:56 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  5. 2026-11-11 17:56 UTCVendor advisory
  6. 2026-11-11 17:56 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j5r3-wq62-8gp5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  7. 2026-11-11 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 91% · 99th percentile
  8. 2026-11-10 19:02 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  9. 2026-11-10 19:02 UTCVendor advisory
  10. 2026-11-10 19:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j5r3-wq62-8gp5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  11. 2026-11-10 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 91% · 99th percentile
  12. 2026-11-09 20:09 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  13. 2026-11-09 20:09 UTCVendor advisory
  14. 2026-11-09 20:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j5r3-wq62-8gp5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  17. 2026-11-08 21:14 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j5r3-wq62-8gp5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  19. 2026-11-07 22:21 UTCVendor advisory
  20. 2026-11-07 22:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j5r3-wq62-8gp5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  23. 2026-11-06 23:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j5r3-wq62-8gp5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  1. 2026-11-06 00:33 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j5r3-wq62-8gp5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  3. 2026-11-05 01:40 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-11-05 01:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j5r3-wq62-8gp5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  5. 2026-11-04 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 91% · 99th percentile
  6. 2026-11-04 02:46 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  7. 2026-11-04 02:46 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-11-04 02:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j5r3-wq62-8gp5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  9. 2026-11-03 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 91% · 99th percentile
  10. 2026-11-03 03:53 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  11. 2026-11-03 03:53 UTCVendor advisory
  12. 2026-11-03 03:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j5r3-wq62-8gp5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  15. 2026-11-02 04:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j5r3-wq62-8gp5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  18. 2026-11-01 06:05 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j5r3-wq62-8gp5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  21. 2026-10-31 07:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j5r3-wq62-8gp5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  24. 2026-10-30 08:14 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j5r3-wq62-8gp5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  25. 2026-10-29 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 91% · 99th percentile
  26. 2026-10-29 09:21 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  27. 2026-10-29 09:21 UTCVendor advisory
  28. 2026-10-29 09:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j5r3-wq62-8gp5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  31. 2026-10-28 10:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j5r3-wq62-8gp5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  37. 2026-10-26 12:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j5r3-wq62-8gp5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  38. 2026-10-25 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 91% · 99th percentile
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  40. 2026-10-25 13:47 UTCVendor advisory
  41. 2026-10-25 13:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j5r3-wq62-8gp5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  42. 2026-10-25 13:46 UTCENISA EU KEV listingEUVD-2017-3733 · listed July 14, 2025 · reported by CERT Italia · Source: ENISA EUVD
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  44. 2026-10-24 17:14 UTCVendor advisory
  45. 2026-10-24 17:14 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j5r3-wq62-8gp5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  48. 2026-10-23 18:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j5r3-wq62-8gp5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  50. 2026-10-22 19:27 UTCVendor advisory
  51. 2026-10-22 19:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j5r3-wq62-8gp5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  52. 2026-10-21 20:33 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  53. 2026-10-21 20:33 UTCVendor advisory
  54. 2026-10-21 20:33 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j5r3-wq62-8gp5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  55. 2026-10-21 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 91% · 99th percentile
  56. 2026-10-20 21:39 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  57. 2026-10-20 21:39 UTCVendor advisory
  58. 2026-10-20 21:39 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j5r3-wq62-8gp5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  61. 2026-10-19 22:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j5r3-wq62-8gp5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  62. 2026-10-19 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 91% · 99th percentile
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  64. 2026-10-18 23:48 UTCVendor advisory
  65. 2026-10-18 23:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j5r3-wq62-8gp5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  69. 2026-10-18 00:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j5r3-wq62-8gp5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  70. 2026-10-17 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 91% · 99th percentile
  71. 2026-10-17 01:58 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  72. 2026-10-17 01:58 UTCVendor advisory
  73. 2026-10-17 01:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j5r3-wq62-8gp5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  74. 2026-10-16 03:04 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  75. 2026-10-16 03:04 UTCVendor advisory

Publicly available exploits

(6 references)

Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 Metasploit module, 4 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.

  • Metasploitauxiliary/scanner/http/jboss_vulnscan✓ verified
    Published Jun 21, 2010

    JBoss Vulnerability Scanner

    Open source ↗
  • Nucleihttp/cves/2017/CVE-2017-12149.yaml
    Published May 11, 2021

    Jboss Application Server - Remote Code Execution

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCjreppiks/CVE-2017-12149
    Published Aug 22, 2019

    Jboss Java Deserialization RCE (CVE-2017-12149)

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoC1337g/CVE-2017-12149
    Published Dec 22, 2017

    CVE-2017-12149 JBOSS RCE (TESTED)

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCyunxu1/jboss-_CVE-2017-12149
    Published Nov 28, 2017

    CVE-2017-12149 jboss反序列化 可回显

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCsevck/CVE-2017-12149
    Published Nov 21, 2017

    CVE-2017-12149 JBOSS as 6.X反序列化(反弹shell版)

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(6)

What is CVE-2017-12149?
CVE-2017-12149 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on October 4, 2017. In Jboss Application Server as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Application Platform 5.2, it was found that the doFilter method in the ReadOnlyAccessFilter of the HTTP Invoker does not restrict classes for which it performs deserialization and thus allowing an attacker to execute arbitrary code via…
When was CVE-2017-12149 made public?
CVE-2017-12149 was made public on August 29, 2017: 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 October 4, 2017. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of October 7, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2017-12149 actively exploited?
Yes. CISA added CVE-2017-12149 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on December 10, 2021, affecting Red Hat JBoss Application Server. KEV listing indicates confirmed exploitation in the wild; this CVE warrants immediate attention. A fix is available. Apply it. ENISA's EU Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue lists CVE-2017-12149 (added July 14, 2025, reported by CERT Italia): ENISA records its exploitation in the wild. Source: ENISA EUVD (EU Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue), reproduced with acknowledgement.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2017-12149?
CVE-2017-12149 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (NVD).
Which products are affected by CVE-2017-12149?
CVE-2017-12149 affects Red Hat JBoss Application Server.
How do I remediate CVE-2017-12149?
A fix for CVE-2017-12149 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory.

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