RHEL 7 : JBoss EAP (RHSA-2018:0268)

high Nessus Plugin ID 106650

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 6.4 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 6.4.19 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.18, and includes bug fixes and enhancements, which are documented in the Release Notes document linked to in the References.

Security Fix(es) :

* It was found that when Artemis and HornetQ are configured with UDP discovery and JGroups discovery a huge byte array is created when receiving an unexpected multicast message. This may result in a heap memory exhaustion, full GC, or OutOfMemoryError. (CVE-2017-12174)

* A vulnerability was discovered in Tomcat where if a servlet context was configured with readonly=false and HTTP PUT requests were allowed, an attacker could upload a JSP file to that context and achieve code execution. (CVE-2017-12617)

* A vulnerability was found in the way RemoteMessageChannel, introduced in jboss-remoting versions 3.3.10.Final-redhat-1, reads from an empty buffer. An attacker could use this flaw to cause denial of service via high CPU caused by an infinite loop. (CVE-2018-1041)

The CVE-2017-12174 issue was discovered by Masafumi Miura (Red Hat).

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0268

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-12174

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-12617

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-1041

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 106650

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-0268.nasl

Version: 3.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/7/2018

Updated: 4/25/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-12617

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ironjacamar-core-impl-eap6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ironjacamar-deployers-common-eap6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ironjacamar-eap6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ironjacamar-jdbc-eap6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ironjacamar-spec-api-eap6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ironjacamar-validator-eap6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-as-appclient, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-as-cli, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-as-client-all, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-as-clustering, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-as-cmp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-as-configadmin, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-as-connector, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-as-controller, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-as-controller-client, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-as-core-security, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-as-deployment-repository, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:hornetq, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:infinispan, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:infinispan-cachestore-jdbc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:infinispan-cachestore-remote, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:infinispan-client-hotrod, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:infinispan-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ironjacamar-common-api-eap6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ironjacamar-common-impl-eap6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ironjacamar-common-spi-eap6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ironjacamar-core-api-eap6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-as-deployment-scanner, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-as-domain-http, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-as-domain-management, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-as-ee, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-as-ee-deployment, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-as-ejb3, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-as-embedded, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-as-host-controller, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-as-jacorb, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-as-jaxr, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-as-jaxrs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-as-jdr, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-as-jmx, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-as-jpa, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-as-jsf, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-as-jsr77, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-as-logging, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-as-mail, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-as-management-client-content, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-as-messaging, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-as-modcluster, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-as-naming, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-as-network, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-as-osgi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-as-osgi-configadmin, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-as-osgi-service, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-as-picketlink, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-as-platform-mbean, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-as-pojo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-as-process-controller, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-as-protocol, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-as-remoting, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-as-sar, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-as-security, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-as-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-as-system-jmx, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-as-threads, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-as-transactions, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-as-version, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-as-web, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-as-webservices, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-as-weld, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-as-xts, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-ejb-client, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-remoting3, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbossas-appclient, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbossas-bundles, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbossas-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbossas-domain, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbossas-javadocs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbossas-modules-eap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbossas-product-eap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbossas-standalone, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbossas-welcome-content-eap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbossweb, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbossws-cxf, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:picketlink-bindings, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:picketlink-federation, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/5/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/4/2017

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 4/15/2022

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Metasploit (Tomcat RCE via JSP Upload Bypass)

Elliot (Apache Tomcat for Windows HTTP PUT Method File Upload)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-12174, CVE-2017-12617, CVE-2018-1041

RHSA: 2018:0268