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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2019-0187

Unauthenticated RCE is possible when JMeter is used in distributed mode (-r or -R command line options). Attacker can establish a RMI connection to a jmeter-server using RemoteJMeterEngine and proceed with an attack using untrusted data deserialization. This only affect tests running in Distributed mode. Note that versions before 4.0 are not able to encrypt traffic between the nodes, nor authenticate the participating nodes so upgrade to JMeter 5.1 is also advised.

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1 Nov 2026, 06:11 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2019-0187

core-osv · Original source

Published 6 Mar 2019, 17:29 UTC

Unauthenticated RCE is possible when JMeter is used in distributed mode (-r or -R command line options). Attacker can establish a RMI connection to a jmeter-server using RemoteJMeterEngine and proceed with an attack using untrusted data deserialization. This only affect tests running in Distributed mode. Note that versions before 4.0 are not able to encrypt traffic between the nodes, nor authenticate the participating nodes so upgrade to JMeter 5.1 is also advised.

osv:CVE-2019-0187
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-0187",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "summary": "Unauthenticated RCE is possible when JMeter is used in distributed mode (-r or -R command line options). Attacker can establish a RMI connection to a jmeter-server using RemoteJMeterEngine and proceed with an attack using untrusted data deserialization. This only affect tests running in Distributed mode. Note that versions before 4.0 are not able to encrypt traffic between the nodes, nor authenticate the participating nodes so upgrade to JMeter 5.1 is also advised.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2019-0187",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "critical",
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        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
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                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:apache:jmeter:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
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          "database_specific": {
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          }
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:36.483209512Z",
      "provider": "osv",
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    },
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        "value": "CVE-2019-0187",
        "evidence": "/id"
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    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 433989,
  "published_at": "2019-03-06T17:29:00.383+00:00"
}