Medium
Security advisory
A flaw was discovered in wildfly versions up to 16.0.0.Final that would allow local users who are able to execute init.d script to terminate arbitrary processes on the system. An attacker could exploit this by modifying the PID file in /var/run/jboss-eap/ allowing the init.d script to terminate any process as root.
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- Affected versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-3805
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:39 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A flaw was discovered in wildfly versions up to 16.0.0.Final that would allow local users who are able to execute init.d script to terminate arbitrary processes on the system. An attacker could exploit this by modifying the PID file in /var/run/jboss-eap/ allowing the init.d script to terminate any process as root.
osv:CVE-2019-3805
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:56.381775532Z",
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"references": [
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"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1107",
"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1108",
"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1140",
"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2413",
"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0727",
"https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190517-0004/",
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