RHEL 7 : JBoss EAP (RHSA-2017:1835)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 102140

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is a platform for Java applications based on the JBoss Application Server.

This release of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0.7 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0.6, and includes bug fixes and enhancements, which are documented in the Release Notes linked to in the References.

Security Fix(es) :

* A deserialization flaw was discovered in jackson-databind which could allow an unauthenticated user to perform code execution by sending maliciously crafted input to the readValue method of the ObjectMapper. (CVE-2017-7525)

* It was found that use of a JMS ObjectMessage does not safely handle user-supplied data when deserializing objects. A remote attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the application using the JMS ObjectMessage. (CVE-2016-4978)

Red Hat would like to thank Liao Xinxi (NSFOCUS) for reporting CVE-2017-7525.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1835

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-4978

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-7525

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 102140

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2017-1835.nasl

Version: 3.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/3/2017

Updated: 10/24/2019

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jboss-xnio-base, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-resteasy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-resteasy-async-http-servlet-3.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-resteasy-atom-provider, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-resteasy-cdi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-resteasy-client, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-resteasy-crypto, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-resteasy-jackson-provider, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-resteasy-jackson2-provider, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-resteasy-jaxb-provider, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-resteasy-jaxrs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-resteasy-jettison-provider, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-resteasy-jose-jwt, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-resteasy-jsapi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-resteasy-json-p-provider, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-resteasy-multipart-provider, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-resteasy-spring, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-resteasy-validator-provider-11, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-resteasy-yaml-provider, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-wildfly, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-wildfly-javadocs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-wildfly-modules, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-wildfly-web-console-eap, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-activemq-artemis, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-activemq-artemis-cli, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-activemq-artemis-commons, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-activemq-artemis-core-client, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-activemq-artemis-dto, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-activemq-artemis-hornetq-protocol, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-activemq-artemis-hqclient-protocol, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-activemq-artemis-jms-client, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-activemq-artemis-jms-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-activemq-artemis-journal, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-activemq-artemis-native, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-activemq-artemis-ra, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-activemq-artemis-selector, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-activemq-artemis-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-activemq-artemis-service-extensions, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-glassfish-jsf, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-hibernate, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-hibernate-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-hibernate-entitymanager, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-hibernate-envers, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-hibernate-infinispan, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-hibernate-java8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-ironjacamar, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-ironjacamar-common-api, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-ironjacamar-common-impl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-ironjacamar-common-spi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-ironjacamar-core-api, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-ironjacamar-core-impl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-ironjacamar-deployers-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-ironjacamar-jdbc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-ironjacamar-validator, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jackson-databind, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jboss-modules, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jboss-remoting

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/31/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/27/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-4978, CVE-2017-7525

RHSA: 2017:1835