Medium
Glassfish remote code execution
Type: advisorySources: OSV
In Eclipse Glassfish 5 or 6, running with old versions of JDK (lower than 6u211, or < 7u201, or < 8u191), allows remote attackers to load malicious code on the server via access to insecure ORB listeners.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-5763
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 7 Nov 2026, 00:51 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In Eclipse Glassfish 5 or 6, running with old versions of JDK (lower than 6u211, or < 7u201, or < 8u191), allows remote attackers to load malicious code on the server via access to insecure ORB listeners.
osv:CVE-2023-5763
Complete source record
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"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5763",
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"published_at": "2023-11-03T06:40:43.441+00:00"
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