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SCA: security update for org.apache.jmeter:ApacheJMeter (GHSA-wg37-7mrv-cfwm)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 422514

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - Unauthenticated RCE is possible when JMeter is used in distributed mode (-r or -R command line options).
 Attacker can establish a RMI connection to a jmeter-server using RemoteJMeterEngine and proceed with an
 attack using untrusted data deserialization. This only affect tests running in Distributed mode. Note that
 versions before 4.0 are not able to encrypt traffic between the nodes, nor authenticate the participating
 nodes so upgrade to JMeter 5.1 is also advised. (CVE-2019-0187)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wg37-7mrv-cfwm

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 422514

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/28/2025

Updated: 1/28/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-0187

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/7/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/2/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-0187

BID: 107219