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CVE-2016-8735

Exploitation: active CVSS 9.8 CRITICAL

CVSS base score: 9.8 (Critical) CISA · v3.1

Score assigned by CISA's Vulnrichment program; the vendor's CVE record did not include one.

Apache Tomcat Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Vendor: Apache   Product: Tomcat

Description

Apache Tomcat contains an unspecified vulnerability that allows for remote code execution if JmxRemoteLifecycleListener is used and an attacker can reach Java Management Extension (JMX) ports. This CVE exists because this listener wasn't updated for consistency with the Oracle patched issues for CVE-2016-3427 which affected credential types.

Lifecycle Timeline

Each milestone comes from a different source, so gaps between them are gaps in what those sources publish, not evidence that nothing happened. EPSS history for this CVE holds 254 points from 2022-02-05, tracked daily from 2026-09-09; earlier points are weekly, which dates a spike to within a week. Peak probability 95.0% on 2024-12-21.

Published Applicability

Red Hat CSAF/VEX 16 affected · 99 fixed · 35 not affected
OSV.dev (incl. GHSA) 13 affected · 12 fixed · 0 not affected
CVE List v5 (CNA container) 5 affected · 0 fixed · 0 not affected

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What each source publishes about which product versions carry this vulnerability, kept as written rather than merged. Absence here means no source has published applicability data, not that nothing is affected.

Research & News Coverage

No mentions found in monitored research blogs or news feeds.

Detection & Exploitation

Exploit / Pen Test
none published
Network IDS/IPS
none published
Host / SIEM
none published

Coverage across public collections only: Nuclei and OpenVAS NVT (scan); Snort and Suricata ET Open (network); Sigma and YARA (host/SIEM); Metasploit, Exploit-DB and public GitHub repositories (exploit). Absence here means nothing public was found, not that detection is impossible.
GitHub PoC repositories are collected automatically by PoC-in-GitHub (CC0) and are not vetted: some are fakes and some are malware. Treat them as evidence that code was published, not as code to run.
OpenVAS coverage derives from the Greenbone Community Feed, made available under the Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0; its individual Vulnerability Tests are licensed GNU GPL v2.

Distribution Status

Debian · tomcat9 bookworm trixie forky sid scope: local

Where the distribution has shipped a fix, and in which version. Green means the release has resolved it, amber that it is still open. Data from the Debian Security Tracker, used under Debian's MIT / GPLv2+ terms. Debian is upstream of several other distributions, so a fix here often precedes theirs.

CISA Assessment (Vulnrichment / SSVC)

active
yes
total
9.8 CRITICAL
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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
2025-02-04

KEV Catalog Status

2023-05-12
2023-06-02
Unknown

Listed By

SourceDateRecord
CISA KEV 2023-05-12 source record →
CISA Vulnrichment 2025-02-04 source record →

Weaponization Timeline — Offensive & Testing Tools

No exploit-tool sightings recorded for this CVE.

Evidence tiers are explained on the About page — a merged Metasploit module is far stronger evidence than a distro package mention.

External References