A vulnerability was found in the Undertow HTTP server in versions before 2.0.28.SP1 when listening on HTTPS. An attacker can target the HTTPS port to carry out a Denial Of Service (DOS) to make the service unavailable on SSL.

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

  - A vulnerability was found in the Undertow HTTP server in versions before 2.0.28.SP1 when listening on     HTTPS. An attacker can target the HTTPS port to carry out a Denial Of Service (DOS) to make the service     unavailable on SSL. (CVE-2019-14888)

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:

  - A vulnerability was found in the Undertow HTTP server in versions before 2.0.28.SP1 when listening on
    HTTPS. An attacker can target the HTTPS port to carry out a Denial Of Service (DOS) to make the service
    unavailable on SSL. (CVE-2019-14888)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:5856 advisory.

    Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 is a platform for Java applications based on the WildFly     application runtime. This release of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1.7 serves as a     replacement for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1.6, and includes bug fixes and     enhancements. See the Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1.7 Release Notes for information     about the most significant bug fixes and enhancements included in this release.

    Security Fix(es):

    * undertow: EAP: field-name is not parsed in accordance to RFC7230 [eap-7.1.z] (CVE-2020-1710)

    * commons-beanutils: apache-commons-beanutils: does not suppresses the class property in PropertyUtilsBean     by default [eap-7.1.z] (CVE-2019-10086)

    * log4j: Remote code execution in Log4j 1.x when application is configured to use JMSSink [eap-7.1.z]     (CVE-2022-23302)

    * jackson-databind: default typing mishandling leading to remote code execution [eap-7.1.z]     (CVE-2019-14379)

    * undertow: HTTP/2: flood using HEADERS frames results in unbounded memory growth [eap-7.1.z]     (CVE-2019-9514)

    * undertow: AJP File Read/Inclusion Vulnerability [eap-7.1.z] (CVE-2020-1745)

    * undertow: HTTP/2: large amount of data requests leads to denial of service [eap-7.1.z] (CVE-2019-9511)

    * undertow: servletPath in normalized incorrectly leading to dangerous application mapping which could     result in security bypass [eap-7.1.z] (CVE-2020-1757)

    * undertow: possible Denial Of Service (DOS) in Undertow HTTP server listening on HTTPS [eap-7.1.z]     (CVE-2019-14888)

    * log4j: Unsafe deserialization flaw in Chainsaw log viewer [eap-7.1.z] (CVE-2022-23307)

    * netty: HttpObjectDecoder.java allows Content-Length header to accompanied by second Content-Length     header [eap-7.1.z] (CVE-2019-20445)

    * log4j: Remote code execution in Log4j 1.x when application is configured to use JMSAppender [eap-7.1.z]     (CVE-2021-4104)

    * undertow: HTTP/2: flood using SETTINGS frames results in unbounded memory growth [eap-7.1.z]     (CVE-2019-9515)

    * infinispan-core: infinispan: invokeAccessibly method from ReflectionUtil class allows to invoke private     methods [eap-7.1.z] (CVE-2019-10174)

    * log4j: SQL injection in Log4j 1.x when application is configured to use JDBCAppender [eap-7.1.z]     (CVE-2022-23305)

    * jackson-databind: failure to block the logback-core class from polymorphic deserialization leading to     remote code execution [eap-7.1.z] (CVE-2019-12384)

    * wildfly-security-manager: security manager authorization bypass (CVE-2019-14843)

    * HTTP/2: flood using PING frames results in unbounded memory growth (CVE-2019-9512)

    * netty: HTTP request smuggling by mishandled whitespace before the colon in HTTP headers (CVE-2019-16869)

    * jackson-databind: Serialization gadgets in org.apache.log4j.receivers.db.* (CVE-2019-17531)

    * netty: HTTP request smuggling (CVE-2019-20444)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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

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

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:0161 advisory.

    Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 is a platform for Java applications based on the WildFly     application runtime.

    This release of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.2.6 serves as a replacement for Red Hat     JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.2.5, and includes bug fixes and enhancements. See the Red Hat     JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.2.6 Release Notes for information about the most significant bug     fixes and enhancements included in this release.

    Security Fix(es):

    * undertow: possible Denial Of Service (DOS) in Undertow HTTP server listening     on HTTPS (CVE-2019-14888)

    * jboss-cli: JBoss EAP: Vault system property security attribute value is     revealed on CLI 'reload' command (CVE-2019-14885)

    * netty: HTTP request smuggling by mishandled whitespace before the colon in     HTTP headers (CVE-2019-16869)

    * jackson-databind: polymorphic typing issue related to     com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariConfig (CVE-2019-14540)

    * jackson-databind: Serialization gadgets in classes of the commons-dbcp package     (CVE-2019-16942)

    * jackson-databind: Serialization gadgets in classes of the     commons-configuration package (CVE-2019-14892)

    * jackson-databind: polymorphic typing issue related to     com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariDataSource (CVE-2019-16335)

    * jackson-databind: Serialization gadgets in classes of the p6spy package     (CVE-2019-16943)

    * jackson-databind: polymorphic typing issue when enabling default typing for an     externally exposed JSON endpoint and having apache-log4j-extra in the classpath     leads to code execution (CVE-2019-17531)

    * jackson-databind: Serialization gadgets in classes of the xalan package     (CVE-2019-14893)

    * hibernate-validator: safeHTML validator allows XSS (CVE-2019-10219)

    * jackson-databind: Serialization gadgets in classes of the ehcache package     (CVE-2019-17267)

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

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

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:0160 advisory.

    Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 is a platform for Java applications based on the WildFly     application runtime.

    This release of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.2.6 serves as a replacement for Red Hat     JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.2.5, and includes bug fixes and enhancements. See the Red Hat     JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.2.6 Release Notes for information about the most significant bug     fixes and enhancements included in this release.

    Security Fix(es):

    * undertow: possible Denial Of Service (DOS) in Undertow HTTP server listening     on HTTPS (CVE-2019-14888)

    * jboss-cli: JBoss EAP: Vault system property security attribute value is     revealed on CLI 'reload' command (CVE-2019-14885)

    * netty: HTTP request smuggling by mishandled whitespace before the colon in     HTTP headers (CVE-2019-16869)

    * jackson-databind: polymorphic typing issue related to     com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariConfig (CVE-2019-14540)

    * jackson-databind: Serialization gadgets in classes of the commons-dbcp package     (CVE-2019-16942)

    * jackson-databind: Serialization gadgets in classes of the     commons-configuration package (CVE-2019-14892)

    * jackson-databind: polymorphic typing issue related to     com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariDataSource (CVE-2019-16335)

    * jackson-databind: Serialization gadgets in classes of the p6spy package     (CVE-2019-16943)

    * jackson-databind: polymorphic typing issue when enabling default typing for an     externally exposed JSON endpoint and having apache-log4j-extra in the classpath     leads to code execution (CVE-2019-17531)

    * jackson-databind: Serialization gadgets in classes of the xalan package     (CVE-2019-14893)

    * hibernate-validator: safeHTML validator allows XSS (CVE-2019-10219)

    * jackson-databind: Serialization gadgets in classes of the ehcache package     (CVE-2019-17267)

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

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

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:0159 advisory.

    Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 is a platform for Java applications based on the WildFly     application runtime.

    This release of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.2.6 serves as a replacement for Red Hat     JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.2.5, and includes bug fixes and enhancements. See the Red Hat     JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.2.6 Release Notes for information about the most significant bug     fixes and enhancements included in this release.

    Security Fix(es):

    * undertow: possible Denial Of Service (DOS) in Undertow HTTP server listening on HTTPS (CVE-2019-14888)

    * jboss-cli: JBoss EAP: Vault system property security attribute value is revealed on CLI 'reload' command     (CVE-2019-14885)

    * netty: HTTP request smuggling by mishandled whitespace before the colon in HTTP headers (CVE-2019-16869)

    * jackson-databind: polymorphic typing issue related to com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariConfig (CVE-2019-14540)

    * jackson-databind: Serialization gadgets in classes of the commons-dbcp package (CVE-2019-16942)

    * jackson-databind: Serialization gadgets in classes of the commons-configuration package (CVE-2019-14892)

    * jackson-databind: polymorphic typing issue related to com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariDataSource     (CVE-2019-16335)

    * jackson-databind: Serialization gadgets in classes of the p6spy package (CVE-2019-16943)

    * jackson-databind: polymorphic typing issue when enabling default typing for an externally exposed JSON     endpoint and having apache-log4j-extra in the classpath leads to code execution (CVE-2019-17531)

    * jackson-databind: Serialization gadgets in classes of the xalan package (CVE-2019-14893)

    * hibernate-validator: safeHTML validator allows XSS (CVE-2019-10219)

    * jackson-databind: Serialization gadgets in classes of the ehcache package (CVE-2019-17267)

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

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
251686	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2019-14888	Nessus	Misc.	high
419395	SCA: security update for io.undertow:undertow-core (GHSA-vjxc-frw4-jmh5)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	high
419395	SCA: security update for io.undertow:undertow-core (GHSA-vjxc-frw4-jmh5)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	high
206210	RHEL 7 : Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1.7 on RHEL 7 (RHSA-2024:5856)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
133158	RHEL 8 : Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.2.6 on RHEL 8 (RHSA-2020:0161)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
133157	RHEL 7 : Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.2.6 on RHEL 7 (RHSA-2020:0160)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
133156	RHEL 6 : Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.2.6 on RHEL 6 (RHSA-2020:0159)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical

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