CVE-2017-5878: RED5 Media Server

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The AMF unmarshallers in Red5 Media Server before 1.0.8 do not restrict the classes for which it performs deserialization, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted serialized Java data.

Affected products

  • RED5 Media Server: version 1.0.2 only; version 1.0.3 only; version 1.0.4 only; version 1.0.5 only; version 1.0.6 only; version 1.0.7 only; …

Published 2017-06-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.