Critical
Security advisory
JBoss RichFaces 4.5.3 through 4.5.17 allows unauthenticated remote attackers to inject an arbitrary expression language (EL) variable mapper and execute arbitrary Java code via a MediaOutputResource's resource request, aka RF-14309.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-12532
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 08:13 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
JBoss RichFaces 4.5.3 through 4.5.17 allows unauthenticated remote attackers to inject an arbitrary expression language (EL) variable mapper and execute arbitrary Java code via a MediaOutputResource's resource request, aka RF-14309.
osv:CVE-2018-12532
Complete source record
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"references": [
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