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Vulnerabilities / CVE-2016-4437

critical

CVE-2016-4437

shiro: Security constraint bypass

Published Modified CWE 321
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
GHSA9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:H
Red Hat7.3CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD, GHSA. Rated lower by Red Hat (high), Ubuntu (high).

Description

Apache Shiro before 1.2.5, when a cipher key has not been configured for the "remember me" feature, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or bypass intended access restrictions via an unspecified request parameter.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
maven::GitHub Security Advisory Mavenorg.apache.shiro:shiro-core1.2.5
debian 11shiro1.2.5-1
debian 12shiro1.2.5-1
debian 13shiro1.2.5-1
debian 14shiro1.2.5-1
debian 8shirono fix listed
echoshiro1.2.5-1
ubuntu 16.04-ESMshiro1.2.4-1ubuntu0.1~esm1

References

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