CVE-2010-0738: Red Hat JBoss Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. Actively exploited: in CISA KEV since 2022-05-25. EPSS: 79.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The JMX-Console web application in JBossAs in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (aka JBoss EAP or JBEAP) 4.2 before 4.2.0.CP09 and 4.3 before 4.3.0.CP08 performs access control only for the GET and POST methods, which allows remote attackers to send requests to this application's GET handler by using a different method.

Affected products

• Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform: version 4.2.0 only; version 4.3.0 only

Published 2010-04-28. Last modified 2026-10-02.