CVE-2019-0187

CRITICAL

Apache JMeter < 5.1 - Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution via RMI Deserialization

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107219

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.0063
EPSS Percentile 70.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-502 CWE-327
Status published
Products (3)
apache/jmeter 4.0
apache/jmeter 5.0
org.apache.jmeter/ApacheJMeter 0 - 5.1Maven
Published Mar 06, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026