CVE-2016-3088

critical

Description

The Fileserver web application in Apache ActiveMQ 5.x before 5.14.0 allows remote attackers to upload and execute arbitrary files via an HTTP PUT followed by an HTTP MOVE request.

References

http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-16-357

http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-16-356

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2036.html

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/13-year-old-bug-in-activemq-lets-hackers-remotely-execute-commands/

https://horizon3.ai/attack-research/disclosures/cve-2026-34197-activemq-rce-jolokia/

https://research.checkpoint.com/speakup-a-new-undetected-backdoor-linux-trojan/

https://www.tenable.com/blog/xbash-malware-targets-windows-and-linux-with-ransomware-and-cryptomining

https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2016-3088

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r6d03e45b81eab03580cf7f8bb51cb3e9a1b10a2cc0c6a2d3cc92ed0c%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/f956ea38e4da2e2c1e7131e6f91e41754852f5a4861d1a14ca5ca78a%40%3Cusers.activemq.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a859563f05fbe7c31916b3178c2697165bd9bbf5a65d1cf62aef27d2%40%3Ccommits.activemq.apache.org%3E

http://activemq.apache.org/security-advisories.data/CVE-2016-3088-announcement.txt

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-06-01

Updated: 2025-10-22

Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV)

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.94294

Detections

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