RHSA-2018:1780 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: xmlrpc security update
Severity
ImportantRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · June 1, 2018
Updated · November 4, 2026
Topic
An update for xmlrpc is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Description
Apache XML-RPC is a Java implementation of XML-RPC, a popular protocol that uses XML over HTTP to implement remote procedure calls.
Security Fix(es):
- xmlrpc: Deserialization of untrusted Java object through ex:serializable ↗ tag (CVE-2016-5003)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.