Security advisory
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.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-0187
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:11 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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",
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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",
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"severity": "critical",
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"type": "CVSS_V3",
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:36.483209512Z",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 433989,
"published_at": "2019-03-06T17:29:00.383+00:00"
}