CVE-2010-0738
Actively exploited. CVE-2010-0738 is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2022-05-25) — exploitation has been observed in the wild, and US federal agencies are required to remediate it under BOD 22-01. Treat patching as urgent.
Public exploit code is available. Proof-of-concept or working exploit code for CVE-2010-0738 is indexed in Metasploit, Exploit-DB and GitHub PoC. Expect opportunistic scanning and exploitation attempts — prioritize remediation.
The JMX-Console web application in JBossAs in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform performs access control only for the GET and POST methods, which allows remote attackers to send requests to this application's GET handler by using a different method.
CSIRTS triage
- What
- The JMX-Console web application in JBoss performs access control only for the GET and POST methods, allowing unauthorized access via other methods.
- Who is affected
- Users of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform are affected.
- Urgency
- This vulnerability is critical and actively exploited, requiring immediate attention.
- Action
- Apply the latest patches for JBoss to resolve this issue.
AI-assisted analysis generated from the source advisory — verify against the original.
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Exploitation outlook
- Exploitation confirmedAlready exploited in the wild (CISA KEV) — the prediction phase is over. Patch now. Riskier than 100% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.
Exploit availability
Public exploit or proof-of-concept code for CVE-2010-0738 is indexed in these free datasets. Available exploit code raises real-world risk independent of the CVSS score.
- MetasploitA Metasploit Framework module targets this CVE — weaponized, point-and-click exploitation.look it up ↗
- Exploit-DBA public exploit is published in the Exploit-DB archive.look it up ↗
- GitHub PoCPublic proof-of-concept repositories on GitHub reference this CVE.look it up ↗
Advisory coverage (1)
- criticalexploitedCVE-2010-0738: Red Hat JBoss Authentication Bypass Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2022-05-25
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