CVE-2018-14667

CRITICALNVD 9.89.8—
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

Score elevated to 9.8 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2023-09-28), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. NVD baseline CVSS 9.8 retained for reference. Confidence: HIGH.

Triggered by: CISA KEV (actively exploited)
Sources: cisa_kev, epss, nvd
Trending — 4 sources updated this weekExploited in the wild
9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPatch nowTreat as an emergency — this is being exploited.
  • Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV)
CISA-KEV: ExploitedEPSS PROB: 74%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: cisa kev · ssvc active · epss top5pct · epss high · public exploitExposed: 0

A fix is available — apply it.

The RichFaces Framework 3.X through 3.3.4 is vulnerable to Expression Language (EL) injection via the UserResource resource. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code using a chain of java serialized objects via org.ajax4jsf.resource.UserResource$UriData.

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8(high)
EG Risk
99(Act)
EG Risk 99/100SSVC: Act

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity98% × 45%
Exploitation100% × 40%
Automatability100% × 15%
Action: Fix now — active exploitation, automatable, high impact.
EPSS PROB
74%
EPSS %ILE
99%
KEV
⚠ Exploited

Published

November 6, 2018

Last Modified

November 3, 2025

Advisory Details (8)

Auto-updated Aug 27, 2026
Patch available. Sources: redhat.
generic

Full Disclosure: RichFaces exploitation toolkit

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Mar/21
generic

Locked Out | Packet Storm

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/156663/Richsploit-RichFaces-Exploitation-Toolkit.html
redhat Patch Available

1639139 – (CVE-2018-14667) CVE-2018-14667 RichFaces: Expression Language injection via UserResource allows for unauthenticated remote code execution

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-14667
redhat Patch Available
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3581
redhat Patch Available
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3519
redhat Patch Available
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3518
redhat Patch Available

Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3517
generic
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042037

Patch Availability(2)

Vendor / EcosystemFixed in / PatchReleasedSource
redhatRichFaces2018-11-13redhat
redhatrichfaces-0:3.3.1-6.SP3_patch_03.ep5.el62018-11-06redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(1 across 1 ecosystem)
Maven(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFixed inDependents
org.richfaces:richfaces-core—3.3.4—

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

All Vendor Advisories

(4)

Every vendor that published an advisory referencing this CVE — pulled from our cve_vendor_advisories aggregation. Click any row for the vendor's original advisory page.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 50× in last 7d / 212× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 634 total refreshes for this CVE.

  1. 2026-08-29 06:31 UTCVendor advisory
  2. 2026-08-29 02:15 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-08-28 21:57 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-08-28 21:57 UTCVendor advisory
  5. 2026-08-28 21:36 UTCEPSS rescore
  6. 2026-08-28 17:40 UTCVendor advisory
  7. 2026-08-28 13:23 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-08-28 09:08 UTCVendor advisory
  9. 2026-08-28 04:53 UTCVendor advisory
  10. 2026-08-28 00:38 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-08-27 20:23 UTCVendor advisory
  12. 2026-08-27 17:22 UTCCISA KEV update
  13. 2026-08-27 16:08 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-08-27 16:08 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-08-27 14:21 UTCEPSS rescore
  16. 2026-08-27 11:53 UTCVendor advisory
  17. 2026-08-27 07:38 UTCVendor advisory
  18. 2026-08-27 03:22 UTCVendor advisory
  19. 2026-08-26 23:06 UTCVendor advisory
  20. 2026-08-26 18:51 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-08-26 18:51 UTCVendor advisory
  22. 2026-08-26 17:41 UTCCISA KEV update
  23. 2026-08-26 14:41 UTCEPSS rescore
  24. 2026-08-26 14:37 UTCVendor advisory
  25. 2026-08-26 10:23 UTCVendor advisory
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  1. 2026-08-26 06:07 UTCVendor advisory
  2. 2026-08-26 01:53 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-08-25 21:38 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-08-25 17:23 UTCVendor advisory
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  8. 2026-08-25 00:24 UTCVendor advisory
  9. 2026-08-24 20:09 UTCVendor advisory
  10. 2026-08-24 18:52 UTCCISA KEV update
  11. 2026-08-24 15:54 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-08-24 15:54 UTCVendor advisory
  13. 2026-08-24 11:40 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-08-24 11:40 UTCVendor advisory
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  25. 2026-08-22 12:54 UTCVendor advisory
  26. 2026-08-22 08:39 UTCVendor advisory
  27. 2026-08-22 04:24 UTCVendor advisory
  28. 2026-08-22 00:09 UTCEG score recompute
  29. 2026-08-22 00:09 UTCVendor advisory
  30. 2026-08-21 23:44 UTCEPSS rescore
  31. 2026-08-21 19:55 UTCVendor advisory
  32. 2026-08-21 16:49 UTCCISA KEV update
  33. 2026-08-21 15:40 UTCVendor advisory
  34. 2026-08-21 11:26 UTCVendor advisory
  35. 2026-08-21 07:12 UTCVendor advisory
  36. 2026-08-21 02:57 UTCVendor advisory
  37. 2026-08-20 22:42 UTCVendor advisory
  38. 2026-08-20 18:27 UTCVendor advisory
  39. 2026-08-20 17:06 UTCCISA KEV update
  40. 2026-08-20 14:13 UTCVendor advisory
  41. 2026-08-20 09:58 UTCVendor advisory
  42. 2026-08-20 05:44 UTCVendor advisory
  43. 2026-08-20 01:29 UTCVendor advisory
  44. 2026-08-19 21:14 UTCEG score recompute
  45. 2026-08-19 21:14 UTCVendor advisory
  46. 2026-08-19 17:33 UTCCISA KEV update
  47. 2026-08-19 17:00 UTCEPSS rescore
  48. 2026-08-19 16:59 UTCVendor advisory
  49. 2026-08-19 12:44 UTCVendor advisory
  50. 2026-08-19 08:30 UTCVendor advisory
  51. 2026-08-19 04:15 UTCVendor advisory
  52. 2026-08-19 00:01 UTCVendor advisory
  53. 2026-08-18 19:45 UTCVendor advisory
  54. 2026-08-18 16:58 UTCCISA KEV update
  55. 2026-08-18 15:28 UTCVendor advisory
  56. 2026-08-18 11:11 UTCVendor advisory
  57. 2026-08-18 06:55 UTCVendor advisory
  58. 2026-08-18 02:40 UTCVendor advisory
  59. 2026-08-17 22:26 UTCVendor advisory
  60. 2026-08-17 18:11 UTCVendor advisory
  61. 2026-08-17 13:56 UTCCISA KEV update
  62. 2026-08-17 13:56 UTCVendor advisory
  63. 2026-08-17 09:41 UTCVendor advisory
  64. 2026-08-17 05:27 UTCVendor advisory
  65. 2026-08-17 01:13 UTCVendor advisory
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  68. 2026-08-16 12:29 UTCVendor advisory
  69. 2026-08-16 08:15 UTCVendor advisory
  70. 2026-08-16 04:01 UTCEG score recompute
  71. 2026-08-16 04:01 UTCVendor advisory
  72. 2026-08-16 02:10 UTCEPSS rescore
  73. 2026-08-15 23:47 UTCVendor advisory
  74. 2026-08-15 19:32 UTCVendor advisory
  75. 2026-08-15 15:17 UTCVendor advisory

Publicly available exploits

(3 references)

Working exploit code is in the public domain (3 GitHub PoCs). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly — public PoCs typically lead to mass-exploitation within 24-72 hours.

  • GitHub PoCVenscor/CVE-2018-14667-poc
    First seen Sep 23, 2019

    CVE-2018-14667-poc Richfaces漏洞环境及PoC

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCsyriusbughunt/CVE-2018-14667
    First seen Nov 30, 2018

    All about CVE-2018-14667; From what it is to how to successfully exploit it.

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCzeroto01/CVE-2018-14667
    First seen Nov 23, 2018
    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(6)

What is CVE-2018-14667?
CVE-2018-14667 is a critical vulnerability published on November 6, 2018. The RichFaces Framework 3.X through 3.3.4 is vulnerable to Expression Language (EL) injection via the UserResource resource. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code using a chain of java serialized objects via org.ajax4jsf.resource.UserResource$UriData.
When was CVE-2018-14667 disclosed?
CVE-2018-14667 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on November 6, 2018, with the most recent update on November 3, 2025. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2018-14667 actively exploited?
Yes. CISA added CVE-2018-14667 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on September 28, 2023, affecting Red Hat JBoss RichFaces Framework. KEV listing indicates confirmed exploitation in the wild; this CVE warrants immediate patching attention.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2018-14667?
CVE-2018-14667 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (NVD).
Which products are affected by CVE-2018-14667?
CVE-2018-14667 affects Red Hat JBoss RichFaces Framework. The full affected-products list, including version ranges and fixed versions, is shown in the Affected Packages section of this page.
How do I remediate CVE-2018-14667?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2018-14667, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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