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medium 6.5

CVE-2016-7041 json

Drools Workbench contains a path traversal vulnerability.

published 2018-09-10 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-7924

cvss
6.5
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.0%
EPSS 4.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 90%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Drools Workbench contains a path traversal vulnerability. The vulnerability allows a remote, authenticated attacker to bypass the directory restrictions and retrieve arbitrary files from the affected host.

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-7041 updated cvss 6.5

Workbench: Path traversal vulnerability

  • Red Hat BPM Suite 6 workbench workbench Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6 workbench workbench
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat JBoss BPMS 6.3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:2937
  • Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6.3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:2938

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.96% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 90% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 3.0 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N

Affected products

  • Red Hat Drools Workbench

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

References

Sources

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