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CentOS 7 : resteasy-base (CESA-2014:1011)

high Nessus Plugin ID 77031

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated resteasy-base packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

RESTEasy contains a JBoss project that provides frameworks to help build RESTful Web Services and RESTful Java applications. It is a fully certified and portable implementation of the JAX-RS specification.

It was found that the fix for CVE-2012-0818 was incomplete: external parameter entities were not disabled when the resteasy.document.expand.entity.references parameter was set to false.
A remote attacker able to send XML requests to a RESTEasy endpoint could use this flaw to read files accessible to the user running the application server, and potentially perform other more advanced XXE attacks. (CVE-2014-3490)

This issue was discovered by David Jorm of Red Hat Product Security.

All resteasy-base users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue.

Solution

Update the affected resteasy-base packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?3be1d342

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 77031

File Name: centos_RHSA-2014-1011.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/7/2014

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

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 Score Source: CVE-2014-3490

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:resteasy-base, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:resteasy-base-atom-provider, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:resteasy-base-jackson-provider, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:resteasy-base-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:resteasy-base-jaxb-provider, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:resteasy-base-jaxrs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:resteasy-base-jaxrs-all, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:resteasy-base-jaxrs-api, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:resteasy-base-jettison-provider, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:resteasy-base-providers-pom, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:resteasy-base-tjws, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/6/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/19/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3490

BID: 69058

RHSA: 2014:1011