The (1) proton.reactor.Connector, (2) proton.reactor.Container, and (3) proton.utils.BlockingConnection classes in Apache Qpid Proton before 0.12.1 improperly use an unencrypted connection for an amqps URI scheme when SSL support is unavailable, which might allow man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain sensitive information or modify data via unspecified vectors.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - The (1) proton.reactor.Connector, (2) proton.reactor.Container, and (3) proton.utils.BlockingConnection     classes in Apache Qpid Proton before 0.12.1 improperly use an unencrypted connection for an amqps URI     scheme when SSL support is unavailable, which might allow man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain sensitive     information or modify data via unspecified vectors. (CVE-2016-2166)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - The (1) proton.reactor.Connector, (2) proton.reactor.Container, and (3) proton.utils.BlockingConnection
    classes in Apache Qpid Proton before 0.12.1 improperly use an unencrypted connection for an amqps URI
    scheme when SSL support is unavailable, which might allow man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain sensitive
    information or modify data via unspecified vectors. (CVE-2016-2166)

Rebased to 0.12.1.

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	Type	Severity
254901	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2016-2166	Nessus	Misc.	Local	medium
423466	SCA: security update for org.apache.qpid:proton-j (GHSA-f5cf-f7px-xpmh)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	Local	medium
423466	SCA: security update for org.apache.qpid:proton-j (GHSA-f5cf-f7px-xpmh)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	Local	medium
90663	Fedora 23 : qpid-proton-0.12.1-1.fc23 (2016-e6e8436b98)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	medium

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2016-2166

medium

Tenable Plugins

medium

medium

medium

medium