What is CVE-2013-3734?

CVE-2013-3734 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Jboss Application Server, classified under CWE-255. CVSS score: 6.6/10. Published 2017-10-24.

How severe is CVE-2013-3734?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.6 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Red Hat Jboss Application Server

CVE-2013-3734

The Embedded Jopr component in JBoss Application Server includes the cleartext datasource password in unspecified HTML responses, which might allow (1) man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain sensitive information by leveraging failure to use SSL or (2) attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading the HTML source code. NOTE: the vendor says that this does not cross a trust boundary and that it is recommended best-practice that SSL is configured for the administrative console

Published 2017-10-24 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.6 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.016 (74.5th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 75th percentile — 74.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.016 · newest: 0.016 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Red Hat Jboss Application Server

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-255

References

www.halock.com/blog/cve-2013-3734-jboss-administration-console-password-returne… (Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/60429 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2013-3734?: CVE-2013-3734 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Jboss Application Server, classified under CWE-255. CVSS score: 6.6/10. Published 2017-10-24.
How severe is CVE-2013-3734?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.6 out of 10.