CVE-2012-5478: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The AuthorizationInterceptor in JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) before 5.2.0, Web Platform (EWP) before 5.2.0, BRMS Platform before 5.3.1, and SOA Platform before 5.3.1 does not properly restrict access, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended role restrictions and perform arbitrary JMX operations via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform: version 5.2.0 only
• Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Brms Platform: up to and including 5.3.0
• Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Platform: version 5.2.0 only

Published 2013-02-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.