JBoss SX and PicketBox, as used in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) before 6.2.3, use world-readable permissions on audit.log, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading this file.

Updated packages that provide Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.2.3 and fix one security issue, several bugs, and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Low security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 is a platform for Java applications based on JBoss Application Server 7.

It was found that the security auditing functionality provided by PicketBox and JBossSX, both security frameworks for Java applications, used a world-readable audit.log file to record sensitive information.
A local user could possibly use this flaw to gain access to the sensitive information in the audit.log file. (CVE-2014-0059)

This release serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.2.2, and includes bug fixes and enhancements.
Documentation for these changes will be available shortly from the Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.2.3 Release Notes, linked to in the References.

All users of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 are advised to upgrade to these updated packages. The JBoss server process must be restarted for the update to take effect.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2014:0563 advisory.

    Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 is a platform for Java     applications based on JBoss Application Server 7.

    It was found that the security auditing functionality provided by PicketBox     and JBossSX, both security frameworks for Java applications, used a     world-readable audit.log file to record sensitive information. A local user     could possibly use this flaw to gain access to the sensitive information in     the audit.log file. (CVE-2014-0059)

    This release serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise     Application Platform 6.2.2, and includes bug fixes and enhancements.
    Documentation for these changes will be available shortly from the Red Hat     JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.2.3 Release Notes, linked to in     the References.

    All users of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.2 on Red Hat     Enterprise Linux 6 are advised to upgrade to these updated packages.
    The JBoss server process must be restarted for the update to take effect.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
74207	RHEL 5 : JBoss EAP (RHSA-2014:0564)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	low
74206	RHEL 6 : Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.2.3 update (Low) (RHSA-2014:0563)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2014-0059

medium

Tenable Plugins

low

medium