CVE-2011-2196: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

jboss-seam.jar in the JBoss Seam 2 framework 2.2.x and earlier, as distributed in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 4.3.0.CP05 and 5.1.0; JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (aka JBoss EAP or JBEAP) 4.3.0, 4.3.0.CP09, and 5.1.1; and JBoss Enterprise Web Platform 5.1.1, does not properly restrict use of Expression Language (EL) statements in FacesMessages during page exception handling, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary Java code via a crafted URL to an application. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2011-1484.

Affected products

• Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform: version 4.3.0 only; version 5.1.1 only
• Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Soa Platform: version 4.3.0 only; version 5.1.0 only
• Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Platform: version 5.1.1 only
• Red Hat JBoss Seam 2 Framework: up to and including 2.2.2; version 2.0.0 only; version 2.0.1 only; version 2.0.2 only; version 2.0.3 only; version 2.1.0 only; …

Published 2011-07-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.