A flaw was found in XNIO. The XNIO NotifierState that can cause a Stack Overflow Exception when the chain of notifier states becomes problematically large can lead to uncontrolled resource management and a possible denial of service (DoS).

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

  - A flaw was found in XNIO. The XNIO NotifierState that can cause a Stack Overflow Exception when the chain     of notifier states becomes problematically large can lead to uncontrolled resource management and a     possible denial of service (DoS). (CVE-2023-5685)

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 flaw was found in XNIO. The XNIO NotifierState that can cause a Stack Overflow Exception when the chain
    of notifier states becomes problematically large can lead to uncontrolled resource management and a
    possible denial of service (DoS). (CVE-2023-5685)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:10208 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 7.1.8 serves as a     replacement for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1.7, and includes bug fixes and     enhancements. See the Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1.8 Release Notes for information     about the most significant bug fixes and enhancements included in this release.

    Security Fix(es):

    * bouncycastle: password bypass in OpenBSDBCrypt.checkPassword utility possible [eap-7.1.z]     (CVE-2020-28052)

    * hsqldb: Untrusted input may lead to RCE attack [eap-7.1.z] (CVE-2022-41853)

    * cxf-core: Apache CXF SSRF Vulnerability using the Aegis databinding [eap-7.1.z] (CVE-2024-28752)

    * h2: Loading of custom classes from remote servers through JNDI [eap-7.1.z] (CVE-2022-23221)

    * CXF: Apache CXF: SSRF Vulnerability [eap-7.1.z] (CVE-2022-46364)

    * xalan: integer truncation issue in Xalan-J (JAXP, 8285407) [eap-7.1.z] (CVE-2022-34169)

    * log4j: log4j1-chainsaw, log4j1-socketappender: DoS via hashmap logging [eap-7.1.z] (CVE-2023-26464)

    * xnio: StackOverflowException when the chain of notifier states becomes problematically big [eap-7.1.z]     (CVE-2023-5685)

    * server: eap-7: heap exhaustion via deserialization [eap-7.1.z] (CVE-2023-3171)

    * netty: HTTP Request Smuggling due to Transfer-Encoding whitespace mishandling [eap-7.1.z]     (CVE-2020-7238)

    * avro: apache-avro: Apache Avro Java SDK: Memory when deserializing untrusted data in Avro Java SDK     [eap-7.1.z] (CVE-2023-39410)

    * avro: apache-avro: Schema parsing may trigger Remote Code Execution (RCE) [eap-7.1.z] (CVE-2024-47561)

    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 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:10207 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 7.3.11 serves as a     replacement for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3.10, and includes bug fixes and     enhancements. See the Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3.11 Release Notes for information     about the most significant bug fixes and enhancements included in this release.

    Security Fix(es):

    * cxf-core: Apache CXF SSRF Vulnerability using the Aegis databinding [eap-7.3.z] (CVE-2024-28752)

    * h2: Loading of custom classes from remote servers through JNDI [eap-7.3.z] (CVE-2022-23221)

    * log4j: Unsafe deserialization flaw in Chainsaw log viewer [eap-7.3.z] (CVE-2022-23307)

    * log4j: SQL injection in Log4j 1.x when application is configured to use JDBCAppender [eap-7.3.z]     (CVE-2022-23305)

    * log4j: Remote code execution in Log4j 1.x when application is configured to use JMSAppender [eap-7.3.z]     (CVE-2021-4104)

    * CXF: Apache CXF: SSRF Vulnerability [eap-7.3.z] (CVE-2022-46364)

    * log4j: log4j1-chainsaw, log4j1-socketappender: DoS via hashmap logging [eap-7.3.z] (CVE-2023-26464)

    * xalan: integer truncation issue in Xalan-J (JAXP, 8285407) [eap-7.3.z] (CVE-2022-34169)

    * xnio: StackOverflowException when the chain of notifier states becomes problematically big [eap-7.3.z]     (CVE-2023-5685)

    * hsqldb: Untrusted input may lead to RCE attack [eap-7.3.z] (CVE-2022-41853)

    * server: eap-7: heap exhaustion via deserialization [eap-7.3.z] (CVE-2023-3171)

    * avro: apache-avro: Apache Avro Java SDK: Memory when deserializing untrusted data in Avro Java SDK     [eap-7.3.z] (CVE-2023-39410)

    * undertow: client side invocation timeout raised when calling EJB over HTTP and HTTP2 [eap-7.3.z]     (CVE-2021-3859)

    * avro: apache-avro: Schema parsing may trigger Remote Code Execution (RCE) [eap-7.3.z] (CVE-2024-47561)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgements, 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 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:7639 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 7.4.14 serves as a replacement for Red Hat     JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.13, and includes bug fixes and enhancements.

    See the Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.14 Release Notes for information about the most     significant bug fixes and enhancements included in this release.

    Security Fix(es):

    * undertow: HTTP/2: Multiple HTTP/2 enabled web servers are vulnerable to a DDoS attack (Rapid Reset     Attack) (CVE-2023-44487)

    * avro: apache-avro: Apache Avro Java SDK: Memory when deserializing untrusted data in Avro Java SDK     (CVE-2023-39410)

    * guava: insecure temporary directory creation (CVE-2023-2976)

    * eap-galleon: custom provisioning creates unsecured http-invoker (CVE-2023-4503)

    * jetty-server: OutOfMemoryError for large multipart without filename read via request.getParameter()     (CVE-2023-26048)

    * jetty-server: Cookie parsing of quoted values can exfiltrate values from other cookies (CVE-2023-26049)

    * sshd-common: apache-mina-sshd: information exposure in SFTP server implementations (CVE-2023-35887)

    A Red Hat Security Bulletin which addresses further details about the Rapid Reset flaw is available in the     References section.

    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-2023:7638 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 7.4.14 serves as a replacement for Red Hat     JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.13, and includes bug fixes and enhancements.

    See the Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.14 Release Notes for information about the most     significant bug fixes and enhancements included in this release.

    Security Fix(es):

    * undertow: HTTP/2: Multiple HTTP/2 enabled web servers are vulnerable to a DDoS attack (Rapid Reset     Attack) (CVE-2023-44487)

    * avro: apache-avro: Apache Avro Java SDK: Memory when deserializing untrusted data in Avro Java SDK     (CVE-2023-39410)

    * guava: insecure temporary directory creation (CVE-2023-2976)

    * eap-galleon: custom provisioning creates unsecured http-invoker (CVE-2023-4503)

    * jetty-server: OutOfMemoryError for large multipart without filename read via request.getParameter()     (CVE-2023-26048)

    * jetty-server: Cookie parsing of quoted values can exfiltrate values from other cookies (CVE-2023-26049)

    * sshd-common: apache-mina-sshd: information exposure in SFTP server implementations (CVE-2023-35887)

    A Red Hat Security Bulletin which addresses further details about the Rapid Reset flaw is available in the     References section.

    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 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:7637 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 7.4.14 serves as a replacement for Red Hat     JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.13, and includes bug fixes and enhancements.

    See the Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.14 Release Notes for information about the most     significant bug fixes and enhancements included in this release.

    Security Fix(es):

    * undertow: HTTP/2: Multiple HTTP/2 enabled web servers are vulnerable to a DDoS attack (Rapid Reset     Attack) (CVE-2023-44487)

    * avro: apache-avro: Apache Avro Java SDK: Memory when deserializing untrusted data in Avro Java SDK     (CVE-2023-39410)

    * guava: insecure temporary directory creation (CVE-2023-2976)

    * eap-galleon: custom provisioning creates unsecured http-invoker (CVE-2023-4503)

    * jetty-server: OutOfMemoryError for large multipart without filename read via request.getParameter()     (CVE-2023-26048)

    * jetty-server: Cookie parsing of quoted values can exfiltrate values from other cookies (CVE-2023-26049)

    * sshd-common: apache-mina-sshd: information exposure in SFTP server implementations (CVE-2023-35887)

    A Red Hat Security Bulletin which addresses further details about the Rapid Reset flaw is available in the     References section.

    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.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
259420	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-5685	Nessus	Misc.	Local	high
421440	SCA: security update for org.jboss.xnio:xnio-api (GHSA-7f88-5hhx-67m2)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	Local	high
421440	SCA: security update for org.jboss.xnio:xnio-api (GHSA-7f88-5hhx-67m2)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	Local	high
211909	RHEL 7 : Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1.8 on RHEL 7 (RHSA-2024:10208)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	Local	critical
211908	RHEL 7 : Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3.11 Security update (Important) (RHSA-2024:10207)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	Local	critical
186544	RHEL 9 : Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.14 on RHEL 9 (RHSA-2023:7639)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	Local	critical
186543	RHEL 8 : Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.14 on RHEL 8 (RHSA-2023:7638)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	Local	critical
186542	RHEL 7 : Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.14 on RHEL 7 (RHSA-2023:7637)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	Local	critical

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