CVE-2026-76166: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A flaw was found in mod_cluster's AdvertiseListenerImpl (org.jboss.modcluster core module). A single crafted UDP multicast datagram with a valid HTTP status line and a "Server:" header but without the "Date:", "Digest:", and "Sequence:" headers triggers a NullPointerException in verifyDigest() that is not caught by the worker thread's exception handler. This causes the advertise listener thread to terminate permanently. The failure is silent (isListening() continues to return true) and persists until the node is restarted. The crash occurs before the AdvertiseSecurityKey comparison, so deployments with a configured security key are still affected.

Affected products

• Red Hat Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7
• Red Hat Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8
• Red Hat Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack
• Red Hat Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5
• Red Hat Red Hat JBoss Web Server 6
• Red Hat Red Hat JBoss Web Server 7
• Red Hat Red Hat Single Sign-On 7

Published 2026-08-19. Last modified 2026-08-20.