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critical 9.8

CVE-2016-8749 in the critical feed json

Apache Camel's Jackson and JacksonXML unmarshalling operation are vulnerable to Remote Code Execution attacks

published 2017-03-28 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-vvjc-q5vr-52q6 , EUVD-2018-0701

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
10.6%
EPSS 10.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 95%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Apache Camel's Jackson and JacksonXML unmarshalling operation are vulnerable to Remote Code Execution attacks.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.apache.camel:camel-jackson 2.16.5, 2.17.5, 2.18.2

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-2016-8749 updated cvss 8.1

camel-jacksonxml: Unmarshalling operation are vulnerable to RCE

  • Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 camel
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 camel-jackson
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2 camel-jackson
    under investigation
  • Red Hat JBoss A-MQ 6.3 Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6.3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:1832

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

10.60% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://www.github.com/mbechler/marshalsec/blob/master/marshalsec.pdf?raw=true referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.apache.camel:camel-jackson
<2.16.5
>=2.17.0, <2.17.5
>=2.18.0, <2.18.2
2.16.5
2.17.5
2.18.2

Affected products

  • Apache Software Foundation Apache Camel

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data

References

Sources

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