RHEL 7 : Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3.14 Security update (Important) (RHSA-2025:9583)

high Nessus Plugin ID 240509

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2025:9583 advisory.

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 is a platform for Java applications based on the WildFly application runtime. This release of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3.14 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3.13, and includes bug fixes and enhancements. See the Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3.14 Release Notes for information about the most significant bug fixes and enhancements included in this release.

Security Fix(es):

* undertow: unrestricted request storage leads to memory exhaustion [eap-7.3.z] (CVE-2023-1973)

* undertow: Infinite loop in SslConduit during close [eap-7.3.z] (CVE-2023-1108)

* undertow: OutOfMemoryError due to @MultipartConfig handling [eap-7.3.z] (CVE-2023-3223)

* undertow: Out-of-memory Error after several closed connections with wildfly-http-client protocol [eap-7.3.z] (CVE-2024-1635)

* keycloak: org.keycloak.protocol.oidc: unvalidated cross-origin messages in checkLoginIframe leads to DDoS [eap-7.3.z] (CVE-2024-1249)

* undertow: Server identity in https connection is not checked by the undertow client [eap-7.3.z] (CVE-2022-4492)

* undertow: potential security issue in flow control over HTTP/2 may lead to DOS(incomplete fix for CVE-2021-3629) [eap-7.3.z] (CVE-2022-1259)

* undertow: Large AJP request may cause DoS [eap-7.3.z] (CVE-2022-2053)

* undertow: AJP Request closes connection exceeding maxRequestSize [eap-7.3.z] (CVE-2023-5379)

* undertow: Double AJP response for 400 from EAP 7 results in CPING failures [eap-7.3.z] (CVE-2022-1319)

* eap: JBoss EAP: wildfly-elytron has a SSRF security issue [eap-7.3.z] (CVE-2024-1233)

* wildfly-elytron: possible timing attacks via use of unsafe comparator [eap-7.3.z] (CVE-2022-3143)

* netty-all: netty-codec: SnappyFrameDecoder doesn't restrict chunk length and may buffer skippable chunks in an unnecessary way [eap-7.3.z] (CVE-2021-37137)

* netty-all: netty-codec: Bzip2Decoder doesn't allow setting size restrictions for decompressed data [eap-7.3.z] (CVE-2021-37136)

* jackson-databind: denial of service via a large depth of nested objects [eap-7.3.z] (CVE-2020-36518)

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

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

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 affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 240509

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-9583.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 6/25/2025

Updated: 6/25/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-37137

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 7.2

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-4492

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 8.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:A

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-1635

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jboss-server-migration-eap7.2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jboss-server-migration-wildfly10.1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jackson-datatype-jsr310, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-wildfly-modules, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jackson-annotations, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jboss-server-migration-wildfly18.0-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-wildfly-elytron-tool, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-wildfly, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jackson-datatype-jdk8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-wildfly-java-jdk8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jackson-jaxrs-providers, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jboss-server-migration-eap6.4, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jboss-server-migration, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jboss-server-migration-wildfly9.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jboss-server-migration-eap6.4-to-eap7.3, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jackson-databind, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-wildfly-java-jdk11, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jboss-server-migration-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jackson-module-jaxb-annotations, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jboss-server-migration-wildfly15.0-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jboss-server-migration-eap7.3-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-undertow, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jboss-server-migration-eap7.2-to-eap7.3, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jackson-modules-java8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jackson-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jackson-jaxrs-json-provider, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jboss-server-migration-wildfly17.0-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jboss-server-migration-wildfly10.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jboss-server-migration-wildfly11.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jboss-server-migration-wildfly12.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jboss-server-migration-eap7.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jboss-server-migration-wildfly16.0-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jboss-server-migration-wildfly8.2, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-wildfly-elytron, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jackson-jaxrs-base, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jboss-server-migration-cli, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jboss-server-migration-wildfly13.0-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-wildfly-javadocs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jackson-modules-base, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jboss-server-migration-eap7.1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty-all, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jboss-server-migration-wildfly14.0-server

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: 6/25/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/9/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-36518, CVE-2021-37136, CVE-2021-37137, CVE-2022-1259, CVE-2022-1319, CVE-2022-2053, CVE-2022-3143, CVE-2022-4492, CVE-2023-1108, CVE-2023-1973, CVE-2023-3223, CVE-2023-5379, CVE-2024-1233, CVE-2024-1249, CVE-2024-1635

CWE: 20, 208, 252, 346, 400, 550, 770, 789, 835, 918

RHSA: 2025:9583

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