Thermostat before 2.0.0 uses world-readable permissions for the web.xml configuration file, which allows local users to obtain user credentials by reading the file.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2015:1052 advisory.

    Thermostat is a monitoring and instrumentation tool for the OpenJDK HotSpot     Java Virtual Machine (JVM) with support for monitoring multiple JVM     instances. Thermostat supports monitoring and gathering performance data     from JVMs running on the same machine, a remote machine, or across a     network. The tool consists of three components: an agent, which collects     data, a client, which allows users to visualize collected data, and a     storage layer, over which the agent and the client communicate. A pluggable     agent and GUI framework allow users to collect and visualize performance     data beyond what is included out of the box.

    The thermostat1 packages have been upgraded to upstream version 1.2.0,     which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous     version. Among others:

    * A new instrumenting profiler plug-in has been added.

    * The setup of secured Thermostat using web storage has been simplified;
    the default setup has been changed to use HTTP-based storage.

    * Various improvements have been introduced, for example, in the Swing     client GUI and in a number of charts.

    (BZ#1166688)

    The following security issue was fixed in the thermostat1-thermostat     component:

    It was discovered that the Thermostat web application stored database     authentication credentials in a world-readable configuration file. A local     user on a system running the Thermostat web application could use this flaw     to access and modify monitored JVM data, or perform actions on connected     JVMs. (CVE-2015-3201)

    This issue was discovered by the Red Hat Thermostat Team.

    Users of thermostat1 are advised to upgrade to these updated packages,     which fix these issues and add these enhancements.

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.

Security fix for CVE-2015-3201

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
234399	RHEL 6 / 7 : thermostat1 (RHSA-2015:1052)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
84097	Fedora 21 : thermostat-1.0.6-2.fc21 (2015-8919)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	low
84065	Fedora 22 : thermostat-1.2.2-7.fc22 (2015-8867)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	low

Detections

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CVE-2015-3201

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Tenable Plugins

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