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.

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Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-6c99-87fr-6q7r OpenAM: Pre-auth RCE via Java Deserialization in WebAuthn Authenticator Storage
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Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:30:00 +0000

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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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.
Title OpenAM Pre-auth RCE via Java Deserialization in WebAuthn Authenticator Storage
Weaknesses CWE-502
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 9.2, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-15T13:53:10.904Z

Reserved: 2026-05-08T18:07:27.342Z

Link: CVE-2026-45051

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-09-15T13:26:15.960Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-09-15T10:17:04.153

Modified: 2026-09-15T14:16:54.240

Link: CVE-2026-45051

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-09-15T12:15:08Z

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