CVE-2017-7536: Red Hat Hibernate Validator

High severity, CVSS 7.0. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Hibernate Validator 5.2.x before 5.2.5 final, 5.3.x, and 5.4.x, it was found that when the security manager's reflective permissions, which allows it to access the private members of the class, are granted to Hibernate Validator, a potential privilege escalation can occur. By allowing the calling code to access those private members without the permission an attacker may be able to validate an invalid instance and access the private member value via ConstraintViolation#getInvalidValue().

Affected products

• Red Hat Hibernate Validator: from 5.2.0, before 5.2.5 (fixed in 5.2.5); from 5.3.0, before 5.3.6 (fixed in 5.3.6); from 5.4.0, before 5.4.2 (fixed in 5.4.2)
• Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform: version 6.0.0 only; version 6.4.0 only; version 7.0 only; version 7.1 only
• Red Hat Satellite: version 6.4 only
• Red Hat Satellite Capsule: version 6.4 only
• Red Hat Virtualization: version 4.0 only
• Red Hat Virtualization Host: version 4.0 only

Published 2018-01-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.