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CVE-2015-5188

Affected software2 products, listed below
Severity6.8 Medium CVSS 2.0
WeaknessCross-site request forgery (CWE-352)
Published27 Oct 2015
Updated17 Jun 2026

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Web Console (web-console) in Red Hat Enterprise Application Platform before 6.4.4 and WildFly (formerly JBoss Application Server) before 2.0.0.CR9 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that make arbitrary changes to an instance via vectors involving a file upload using a multipart/form-data submission.

Exploitation status

Exploited

Real-world exploitation reported by VulnCheck KEV. CISA has not confirmed it.

  • CISA KEV not listed
  • VulnCheck KEV listed Exploitation reported in the wild. 1 citation · earliest 2016-03-25.
  • CISA Vulnrichment no assessment published
  • Indexed PoC none indexed
  • EPSS 1.1% chance in 30 days

VulnCheck KEV

Exploitation evidence from VulnCheck Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (VulnCheck KEV), used under VulnCheck's community terms. View CVE-2015-5188 in VulnCheck (free account).

EvidenceSourceDetailDate
Reported exploitation nsarchive.gwu.edu /sites/default/files/documents/5986978/National-Security-Archive-Department-of-Justice.pdf 2016-03-25

Waratek protection

Mitigation candidate

A kind of vulnerability Waratek's rules address, with exploit code published or exploitation reported. No rule exists and none is planned yet. The decision below says what we found to build a rule from.

  • Protection none
  • Action unverified
  • Review automated Inferred
  • Record active
Decided by A reference pointing at the upstream fix: a commit, a PR, a Red Hat bug
Finding A Red Hat Bugzilla ticket (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1252885) tracks the fix. That makes this CVE a candidate for an ARMR patch rule. No rule exists and none is scheduled: whether one can be derived depends on reading the upstream change the ticket links.
Candidate fix https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1252885 : a Red Hat bug: the triage, which links onward to the fix

Affected software and releases

Products and versions

2 products, 2 version entries
SourceVendorProductSchemeAffected versions
nvd redhat jboss enterprise application platform generic ≤ 6.4.3
nvd redhat jboss wildfly application server generic ≤ 2.0.0

References

URLTags
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1252885 bugzilla
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1904.html Vendor Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1905.html Vendor Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1906.html Vendor Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1907.html Vendor Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1908.html Vendor Advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033859
https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFCORE-594 Vendor Advisory

Timeline

Published2015-10-27By the CVE Program.
VulnCheck KEV: earliest evidence2016-03-25Date of the oldest evidence of exploitation in VulnCheck KEV's record. VulnCheck does not publish the date it listed the CVE.
NVD record modified2026-06-17NVD's own last-modified date for this record.