CVE-2015-0279 (GCVE-0-2015-0279)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-03-26 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 04:03
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Summary
JBoss RichFaces before 4.5.4 allows remote attackers to inject expression language (EL) expressions and execute arbitrary Java code via the do parameter.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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References
Date Public
2015-03-24 00:00
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