Vulnerability Report

CVE-2016-6500

RCE

Title: Forgerock Racf Connector RCE

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2016-6500.

CWE Category CWE-20

Published Date Feb 03, 2017

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 8.1 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.28%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2016-6500: Unspecified methods in the RACF Connector component before 1.1.1.0 in ForgeRock OpenIDM and OpenICF improperly call the SearchControls constructor with returnObjFlag set to true, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted serialized Java object, aka LDAP entry poisoning.

Impacted Vendors

forgerock 1

Reference Links

https://backstage.forgerock.com/knowledge/kb/article/a96963547 https://backstage.forgerock.com/knowledge/kb/article/a96963547

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

8.1

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

HIGH

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.8

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns