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RHEL 8 / 9 : Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.0 (RHSA-2024:2764)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 195174

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.0.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 / 9 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:2764 advisory.

 - undertow: unrestricted request storage leads to memory exhaustion (CVE-2023-1973)

 - undertow: Cookie Smuggling/Spoofing (CVE-2023-4639)

 - A path traversal vulnerability was found in Undertow. This issue may allow a remote attacker to append a specially-crafted sequence to an HTTP request for an application deployed to JBoss EAP, which may permit access to privileged or restricted files and directories. (CVE-2024-1459)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.0 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:2764.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2764

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-1973

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4639

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-1459

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 195174

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-2764.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/8/2024

Updated: 5/10/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-1459

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-undertow

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: 5/8/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/12/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-1973, CVE-2023-4639, CVE-2024-1459

CWE: 20, 24, 444

RHSA: 2024:2764