OpenAM Pre-auth RCE via Java Deserialization in WebAuthn Authenticator Storage (OpenIdentityPlatform OpenAM)

CVE-2026-45051
CRITICAL 9.2

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.69 % · percentile 53 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
GitHub_M
NVD status
Awaiting Analysis

Description

Open Access Management (OpenAM) is an access management solution. Prior to 16.1.1, WebAuthnAuthentication loads a serialized AuthenticatorImpl object graph from the configured userAttribute through loadAuthenticators without an ObjectInputFilter. Exploitation requires the WebAuthn flow to be reachable and an attacker to have previously written controlled data to that attribute through delegated administration, provisioning, directory access, legacy REST self-registration, or unsafe configuration. When those non-default conditions hold, the data is deserialized before assertion verification and can execute a classpath gadget in the application server process. This issue is fixed in version 16.1.1.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-502 — Deserialization of Untrusted Data

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.2CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NGitHub_M
CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.2CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:XNVD · security-advisories@github.com (Secondary)

Advisories

European references

Affected products

ProductVersions
OpenIdentityPlatform · OpenAMaffected < 16.1.1

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD