RHEL 6 : jboss-ec2-eap (RHSA-2015:1673)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 85619

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for jboss-ec2-eap.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2015:1673 advisory.

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 is a platform for Java EE applications. It is based on JBoss Application Server 7 and incorporates multiple open-source projects to provide a complete Java EE platform solution.

* The jboss-ec2-eap package provides scripts for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform running on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). With this update, the package has been updated to ensure compatibility with Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.3. (BZ#1228766)

The following security issue is also fixed with this release:

It was discovered that under specific conditions that PicketLink IDP ignores role based authorization. This could lead to an authenticated user being able to access application resources that are not permitted for a given role. (CVE-2015-3158)

Users of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.2 jboss-ec2-eap are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes these bugs and adds 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 RHEL jboss-ec2-eap package based on the guidance in RHSA-2015:1673.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 85619

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2015-1673.nasl

Version: 2.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 8/25/2015

Updated: 4/29/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-3158

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-ec2-eap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-ec2-eap-samples, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/24/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/26/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-3158

RHSA: 2015:1673

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