RHEL 6 / 7 : thermostat1 (RHSA-2015:1052)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 234399

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2015:1052 advisory.

Thermostat is a monitoring and instrumentation tool for the OpenJDK HotSpot Java Virtual Machine (JVM) with support for monitoring multiple JVM instances. Thermostat supports monitoring and gathering performance data from JVMs running on the same machine, a remote machine, or across a network. The tool consists of three components: an agent, which collects data, a client, which allows users to visualize collected data, and a storage layer, over which the agent and the client communicate. A pluggable agent and GUI framework allow users to collect and visualize performance data beyond what is included out of the box.

The thermostat1 packages have been upgraded to upstream version 1.2.0, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. Among others:

* A new instrumenting profiler plug-in has been added.

* The setup of secured Thermostat using web storage has been simplified;
the default setup has been changed to use HTTP-based storage.

* Various improvements have been introduced, for example, in the Swing client GUI and in a number of charts.

(BZ#1166688)

The following security issue was fixed in the thermostat1-thermostat component:

It was discovered that the Thermostat web application stored database authentication credentials in a world-readable configuration file. A local user on a system running the Thermostat web application could use this flaw to access and modify monitored JVM data, or perform actions on connected JVMs. (CVE-2015-3201)

This issue was discovered by the Red Hat Thermostat Team.

Users of thermostat1 are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these issues and add these enhancements.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 234399

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2015-1052.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 4/15/2025

Updated: 4/15/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-3201

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:thermostat1-jcommon, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:thermostat1-jline2-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:thermostat1-jline2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:thermostat1-netty, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:thermostat1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:thermostat1-jcommon-xml, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:thermostat1-netty-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:thermostat1-jcommon-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:thermostat1-thermostat, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:thermostat1-runtime, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:thermostat1-apache-commons-fileupload, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:thermostat1-scldevel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:thermostat1-jfreechart, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:thermostat1-apache-commons-fileupload-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:thermostat1-thermostat-webapp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:thermostat1-jfreechart-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:thermostat1-thermostat-javadoc

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: 6/4/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/15/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-3201

CWE: 522

RHSA: 2015:1052

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