Critical
Security advisory
It has been reported that KIE server and Busitess Central before version 7.21.0.Final contain username and password as plaintext Java properties. Any app deployed on the same server would have access to these properties, thus granting access to ther services.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2016-7043
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 09:47 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
It has been reported that KIE server and Busitess Central before version 7.21.0.Final contain username and password as plaintext Java properties. Any app deployed on the same server would have access to these properties, thus granting access to ther services.
osv:CVE-2016-7043
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-7043",
"method": "structured",
"payload": {
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"title": "CVE-2016-7043",
"summary": "It has been reported that KIE server and Busitess Central before version 7.21.0.Final contain username and password as plaintext Java properties. Any app deployed on the same server would have access to these properties, thus granting access to ther services.",
"evidence": "osv:CVE-2016-7043",
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"score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
}
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"modified": "2026-10-20T10:47:58.555599341Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-7043",
"https://github.com/kiegroup/droolsjbpm-integration/pull/1273"
],
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 379878,
"published_at": "2019-05-15T16:29:00.253+00:00"
}