RHEL 8 : Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.24 (RHSA-2026:4916)

high Nessus Plugin ID 302900

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.24.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2026:4916 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 7.4.24 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.23, and includes bug fixes and enhancements. See the Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.24 Release Notes for information about the most significant bug fixes and enhancements included in this release.

Security Fix(es):

* jackson-core: jackson-core Potential StackoverflowError (CVE-2025-52999)

* undertow-core: Undertow HTTP Server Fails to Reject Malformed Host Headers Leading to Potential Cache Poisoning and SSRF [eap-7.4.z] (CVE-2025-12543)

* cxf: CXF JMS Code Execution Vulnerability [eap-7.4.z] (CVE-2025-48913)

* netty-codec-http2: Netty MadeYouReset HTTP/2 DDoS Vulnerability (CVE-2025-55163)

* org.eclipse.jgit: XXE vulnerability in Eclipse JGit [eap-7.4.z] (CVE-2025-4949)

* hibernate-core: Hibernate: Information disclosure and data deletion via second-order SQL injection [eap-7.4.z] (CVE-2026-0603)

* com.google.protobuf/protobuf-java: StackOverflow vulnerability in Protocol Buffers (CVE-2024-7254)

* undertow: OutOfMemory when parsing form data encoding with application/x-www-form-urlencoded [eap-7.4.z] (CVE-2024-3884)

* undertow-core: Undertow MadeYouReset HTTP/2 DDoS Vulnerability (CVE-2025-9784)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, 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 RHEL Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.24 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2026:4916.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 302900

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2026-4916.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 3/18/2026

Updated: 3/18/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.3

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-12543

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.6

Temporal Score: 8.6

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 7.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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-2025-52999

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty-transport-classes-kqueue, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty-codec-mqtt, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty-transport-native-epoll, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty-codec-smtp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty-handler, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty-transport-sctp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-undertow, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty-codec-redis, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty-codec-xml, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-hibernate-java8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty-resolver, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty-all, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-apache-cxf-rt, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-wildfly-java-jdk11, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-hibernate-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-wildfly-modules, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-hibernate, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty-transport, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-apache-cxf, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-wildfly-java-jdk17, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jboss-marshalling-river, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-apache-cxf-services, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty-codec-stomp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-wildfly-javadocs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty-resolver-dns, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jboss-marshalling, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty-handler-proxy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty-codec-dns, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty-codec-memcache, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty-codec, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty-resolver-dns-classes-macos, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty-codec-http2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-hibernate-entitymanager, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty-codec-socks, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-eclipse-jgit, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-apache-cxf-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty-buffer, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-wildfly-java-jdk8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty-transport-classes-epoll, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty-codec-haproxy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty-codec-http, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty-transport-native-unix-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-wildfly, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-hibernate-envers

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: 3/18/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/19/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-3884, CVE-2024-7254, CVE-2025-12543, CVE-2025-48913, CVE-2025-4949, CVE-2025-52999, CVE-2025-55163, CVE-2025-9784, CVE-2026-0603

CWE: 121, 20, 611, 770, 89

RHSA: 2026:4916

Detections

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