RHEL 7 : Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3.19 Update (Important) (RHSA-2026:73644)

high Nessus Plugin ID 353413

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-2026:73644 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 7.3.19 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3.18, and includes bug fixes and enhancements. See the Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3.19 Release Notes for information about the most significant bug fixes and enhancements included in this release.

Security Fix(es):

* mchange-commons-java: mchange-commons-java: Arbitrary code execution via JNDI dereferencing of crafted objects [eap-7.3.z] (CVE-2026-27727)

* com.mchange/c3p0: c3p0: Arbitrary Code Execution via deserialization of crafted objects [eap-7.3.z] (CVE-2026-27830)

* netty-codec: Netty: Denial of Service via excessive memory allocation in LZ4FrameDecoder [eap-7.3.z] (CVE-2026-42583)

* netty-handler-proxy: Netty: HTTP Header Injection via HttpProxyHandler Disabled Validation [eap-7.3.z] (CVE-2026-42578)

* netty-codec-http: Netty: HTTP Request Smuggling due to improper handling of conflicting HTTP/1.0 headers [eap-7.3.z] (CVE-2026-42581)

* netty-codec-http: Netty: Request smuggling via malformed Transfer-Encoding parsing [eap-7.3.z] (CVE-2026-42585)

* netty-codec-http: Netty: Incorrect HTTP response parsing leads to data confusion [eap-7.3.z] (CVE-2026-42584)

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 affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:73644

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2442671

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2442908

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2477219

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2477224

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2477226

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2477227

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2477232

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/JBEAP-34007

http://www.nessus.org/u?06b3554a

http://www.nessus.org/u?318afd7b

http://www.nessus.org/u?c49d9db8

http://www.nessus.org/u?c54dff59

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 353413

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2026-73644.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/30/2026

Updated: 9/30/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 58.03

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-2026-42581

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.9

Threat Score: 7.4

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-27830

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-hibernate-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-hibernate-entitymanager, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-hibernate-envers, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-hibernate-java8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-hibernate, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jboss-server-migration-cli, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jboss-server-migration-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jboss-server-migration-eap6.4-to-eap7.3, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jboss-server-migration-eap6.4, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jboss-server-migration-eap7.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jboss-server-migration-eap7.1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jboss-server-migration-eap7.2-to-eap7.3, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jboss-server-migration-eap7.2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jboss-server-migration-eap7.3-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jboss-server-migration-wildfly10.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jboss-server-migration-wildfly10.1, 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-wildfly13.0-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jboss-server-migration-wildfly14.0-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jboss-server-migration-wildfly15.0-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jboss-server-migration-wildfly16.0-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jboss-server-migration-wildfly17.0-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jboss-server-migration-wildfly18.0-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jboss-server-migration-wildfly8.2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jboss-server-migration-wildfly9.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jboss-server-migration, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty-all, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-wildfly-java-jdk11, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-wildfly-java-jdk8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-wildfly-javadocs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-wildfly-modules, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-wildfly

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: 9/30/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/25/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-27727, CVE-2026-27830, CVE-2026-42578, CVE-2026-42581, CVE-2026-42583, CVE-2026-42584, CVE-2026-42585

CWE: 444, 502, 770, 93

RHSA: 2026:73644