Apache Karaf vulnerabilities

18 CVEs affecting Apache Karaf, 0 known to be exploited (CISA KEV), with EPSS scores. Latest: CVE-2026-92142, published 2026-09-29.

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CVE-2018-11788, published 2019-01-07. Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 7.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Apache Karaf provides a features deployer, which allows users to "hot deploy" a features XML by dropping the file directly in the deploy folder. The features XML is parsed by XMLInputFactory class.…
CVE-2020-28052, published 2020-12-18. High severity, CVSS 8.1. EPSS: 7.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. An issue was discovered in Legion of the Bouncy Castle BC Java 1.65 and 1.66. The OpenBSDBCrypt.checkPassword utility method compared incorrect data when checking the password, allowing incorrect…
CVE-2016-8750, published 2018-02-19. Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 5.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Apache Karaf prior to 4.0.8 used the LDAPLoginModule to authenticate users to a directory via LDAP. However, it did not encoding usernames properly and hence was vulnerable to LDAP injection attacks…
CVE-2019-0191, published 2019-03-21. Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 4.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Apache Karaf kar deployer reads .kar archives and extracts the paths from the "repository/" and "resources/" entries in the zip file. It then writes out the content of these paths to the Karaf repo…
CVE-2022-22932, published 2022-01-26. Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 2.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Apache Karaf obr:* commands and run goal on the karaf-maven-plugin have partial path traversal which allows to break out of expected folder. The risk is low as obr:* commands are not very used and…
CVE-2018-11787, published 2018-09-18. High severity, CVSS 8.1. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. In Apache Karaf version prior to 3.0.9, 4.0.9, 4.1.1, when the webconsole feature is installed in Karaf, it is available at .../system/console and requires authentication to access it. One part of…
CVE-2022-40145, published 2022-12-21. Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. This vulnerable is about a potential code injection when an attacker has control of the target LDAP server using in the JDBC JNDI URL. The function…
CVE-2021-41766, published 2022-01-26. High severity, CVSS 8.1. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Apache Karaf allows monitoring of applications and the Java runtime by using the Java Management Extensions (JMX). JMX is a Java RMI based technology that relies on Java serialized objects for client…
CVE-2018-11786, published 2018-09-18. High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. In Apache Karaf prior to 4.2.0 release, if the sshd service in Karaf is left on so an administrator can manage the running instance, any user with rights to the Karaf console can pivot and read/write…
CVE-2020-11980, published 2020-06-12. Medium severity, CVSS 6.3. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. In Karaf, JMX authentication takes place using JAAS and authorization takes place using ACL files. By default, only an "admin" can actually invoke on an MBean. However there is a vulnerability there…

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CVE-2026-92142, published 2026-09-29. High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Apache Karaf exposes a JMX MBeanServer guarded by KarafMBeanServerGuard, which enforces role-based access control (RBAC) on MBean operations invoked over the remote JMX connector (RMI…
CVE-2026-91085, published 2026-09-29. Medium severity, CVSS 6.3. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Apache Karaf's shell/SSH command security is enforced by per-scope ACL configuration files (etc/org.apache.karaf.command.acl.<scope>.cfg). SecuredSessionFactoryImpl.checkSecurity() resolves the roles…
CVE-2026-91048, published 2026-09-29. Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. The jdbc shell command scope shipped no org.apache.karaf.command.acl.jdbc.cfg. Karaf's command guard (SecuredSessionFactoryImpl) treats a command with no matching ACL rule as allowed, so any…
CVE-2026-91012, published 2026-09-29. Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. org.apache.karaf.config.core.impl.ConfigRepositoryImpl#update(pid, properties), which backs the "config" MBean and the config:* shell commands, derives the file it writes a configuration to from…
CVE-2026-91006, published 2026-09-28. High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Apache Karaf's instance-management service (InstanceServiceImpl) builds the command line used to launch a child Karaf JVM by string concatenation, then executes it through /bin/sh (Unix)…
CVE-2026-90979, published 2026-09-28. High severity, CVSS 7.3. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. LDAPCache and LDAPBackingEngine build LDAP search filters for user lookup and role lookup by textually substituting the placeholders %u, %dn, and %fqdn (drawn from the login name, the resolved user…