RHEL 6 : JBoss EAP (RHSA-2018:1607)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 109990

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 5 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. 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 asynchronous patch is a security update for JBoss invoker in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2.0.

Security Fix(es) :

* jbossas: Arbitrary code execution via unrestricted deserialization in ReadOnlyAccessFilter of HTTP Invoker. (CVE-2017-12149)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Red Hat would like to thank Joao F M Figueiredo for reporting this issue.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1607

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-12149

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 109990

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-1607.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/23/2018

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: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-12149

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.1

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:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbossas, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbossas-client, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbossas-messaging, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbossas-ws-native, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6

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: 5/17/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/4/2017

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 6/10/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-12149

RHSA: 2018:1607