CVE-2016-8656: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Jboss jbossas before versions 5.2.0-23, 6.4.13, 7.0.5 is vulnerable to an unsafe file handling in the jboss init script which could result in local privilege escalation.

Affected products

• Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform: version 5.0.0 only; version 6.0.0 only; version 6.4.0 only; version 7.0.0 only; version 7.1.0 only

Published 2018-05-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.