A flaw was found in wildfly. The JBoss EJB client has publicly accessible privileged actions which may lead to information disclosure on the server it is deployed on. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality.

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

  - A flaw was found in wildfly. The JBoss EJB client has publicly accessible privileged actions which may
    lead to information disclosure on the server it is deployed on. The highest threat from this vulnerability
    is to data confidentiality. (CVE-2021-20250)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2021:0874 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 7.3.6 serves as a replacement for Red Hat     JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3.5, and includes bug fixes and enhancements. See the Red Hat     JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3.6 Release Notes for information about the most significant bug     fixes and enhancements included in this release.

    Security Fix(es):

    * jboss-remoting: Threads hold up forever in the EJB server by suppressing the ack from an EJB client     (CVE-2020-35510)

    * bouncycastle: password bypass in OpenBSDBCrypt.checkPassword utility possible (CVE-2020-28052)

    * wildfly-undertow: undertow: Possible regression in fix for CVE-2020-10687 (CVE-2021-20220)

    * jboss-ejb-client: wildfly: Information disclosure due to publicly accessible privileged actions in JBoss     EJB Client (CVE-2021-20250)

    * guava: local information disclosure via temporary directory created with unsafe permissions     (CVE-2020-8908)

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-2021:0873 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 7.3.6 serves as a replacement for Red Hat     JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3.5, and includes bug fixes and enhancements. See the Red Hat     JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3.6 Release Notes for information about the most significant bug     fixes and enhancements included in this release.

    Security Fix(es):

    * jboss-remoting: Threads hold up forever in the EJB server by suppressing the ack from an EJB client     (CVE-2020-35510)

    * bouncycastle: password bypass in OpenBSDBCrypt.checkPassword utility possible (CVE-2020-28052)

    * wildfly-undertow: undertow: Possible regression in fix for CVE-2020-10687 (CVE-2021-20220)

    * jboss-ejb-client: wildfly: Information disclosure due to publicly accessible privileged actions in JBoss     EJB Client (CVE-2021-20250)

    * guava: local information disclosure via temporary directory created with unsafe permissions     (CVE-2020-8908)

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-2021:0872 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 7.3.6 serves as a replacement for Red Hat     JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3.5, and includes bug fixes and enhancements. See the Red Hat     JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3.6 Release Notes for information about the most significant bug     fixes and enhancements included in this release.

    Security Fix(es):

    * jboss-remoting: Threads hold up forever in the EJB server by suppressing the ack from an EJB client     (CVE-2020-35510)

    * bouncycastle: password bypass in OpenBSDBCrypt.checkPassword utility possible (CVE-2020-28052)

    * wildfly-undertow: undertow: Possible regression in fix for CVE-2020-10687 (CVE-2021-20220)

    * jboss-ejb-client: wildfly: Information disclosure due to publicly accessible privileged actions in JBoss     EJB Client (CVE-2021-20250)

    * guava: local information disclosure via temporary directory created with unsafe permissions     (CVE-2020-8908)

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
408594	SCA: security update for org.jboss:jboss-ejb-client (GHSA-2259-h742-5vr4)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	medium
408594	SCA: security update for org.jboss:jboss-ejb-client (GHSA-2259-h742-5vr4)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	medium
147838	RHEL 8 : Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3.6 (RHSA-2021:0874)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
147837	RHEL 7 : Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3.6 (RHSA-2021:0873)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
147831	RHEL 6 : Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3.6 (RHSA-2021:0872)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high

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