RHEL 4 / 5 : jboss-seam2 (RHSA-2010:0564)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 63940

Synopsis

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

Description

Updated jboss-seam2 packages that fix one security issue are now available for JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 4.3 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

[Updated 28 July 2010] The CVE-2010-1871 description has been updated to reflect that an attacker does not need to be authenticated to exploit this issue. No changes have been made to the packages.

The JBoss Seam Framework is an application framework for building web applications in Java.

An input sanitization flaw was found in the way JBoss Seam processed certain parametrized JBoss Expression Language (EL) expressions. A remote attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code via a URL, containing appended, specially crafted expression language parameters, provided to certain applications based on the JBoss Seam framework. Note: A properly configured and enabled Java Security Manager would prevent exploitation of this flaw. (CVE-2010-1871)

Red Hat would like to thank Meder Kydyraliev of the Google Security Team for responsibly reporting this issue.

Users of jboss-seam2 should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue. The JBoss server process must be restarted for this update to take effect.

Solution

Update the affected jboss-seam2 and / or jboss-seam2-docs packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2010-1871

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010:0564

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 63940

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2010-0564.nasl

Version: 1.23

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/24/2013

Updated: 4/25/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2010-1871

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-seam2-docs, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-seam2

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: 7/28/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/5/2010

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 6/10/2022

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Metasploit (JBoss Seam 2 File Upload and Execute)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-1871

RHSA: 2010:0564