Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 7, when operating as a reverse-proxy with default buffer sizes, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and disk consumption) via a long URL.

The jboss-ec2-eap package that adds an enhancement is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0.3 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

The eap7-jboss-ec2-eap packages provide scripts for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform running on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).

With this update, the eap7-jboss-ec2-eap package has been updated to ensure compatibility with Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0.3. Refer to the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0.3 Release Notes, linked to in the References section, for information about the most significant bug fixes and enhancements included in this release.

Security Fix(es) :

* It was discovered that a long URL sent to EAP 7 Server operating as a reverse proxy with default buffer sizes causes a Denial of Service.
(CVE-2016-7046)

Updated packages that provides Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0.3, fixes several bugs, and adds various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 is an application server that serves as a middleware platform and is built on open standards and compliant with the Java EE 7 specification.

This release serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0.2. It includes bug fixes and enhancements.
Refer to the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0.3 Release Notes linked to in the References section for information about the most significant bug fixes and enhancements included in this release.

Security Fix(es) :

* It was discovered that a long URL sent to EAP 7 Server operating as a reverse proxy with default buffer sizes causes a Denial of Service.
(CVE-2016-7046)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2016:2640 advisory.

    Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 is an application server that serves as a middleware     platform and is built on open standards and compliant with the Java EE 7 specification.

    This release serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0.2. It includes     bug fixes and enhancements. Refer to the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0.3 Release Notes linked     to in the References section for information about the most significant bug fixes and enhancements     included in this release.

    Security Fix(es):

    * It was discovered that a long URL sent to EAP 7 Server operating as a reverse proxy with default buffer     sizes causes a Denial of Service. (CVE-2016-7046)

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.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2017:3455 advisory.

    Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is a platform for Java applications based on the JBoss     Application Server.

    This release of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1.0 serves as a replacement for Red Hat     JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0.0, and includes bug fixes and enhancements, which are documented     in the Release Notes document linked to in the References.

    Security Fix(es):

    * A Denial of Service can be caused when a long request is sent to EAP 7. (CVE-2016-7046)

    * The jboss init script unsafe file handling resulting in local privilege escalation. (CVE-2016-8656)

    * A deserialization vulnerability via readValue method of ObjectMapper which allows arbitrary code     execution. (CVE-2017-7525)

    * JMSObjectMessage deserializes potentially malicious objects allowing Remote Code Execution.
    (CVE-2016-4978)

    * Undertow is vulnerable to the injection of arbitrary HTTP headers, and also response splitting.
    (CVE-2016-4993)

    * The domain controller will not propagate its administrative RBAC configuration to some slaves leading to     escalate their privileges. (CVE-2016-5406)

    * Internal IP address disclosed on redirect when request header Host field is not set. (CVE-2016-6311)

    * Potential EAP resource starvation DOS attack via GET requests for server log files. (CVE-2016-8627)

    * Inefficient Header Cache could cause denial of service. (CVE-2016-9589)

    * The log file viewer allows arbitrary file read to authenticated user via path traversal. (CVE-2017-2595)

    * HTTP Request smuggling vulnerability due to permitting invalid characters in HTTP requests.
    (CVE-2017-2666)

    * Websocket non clean close can cause IO thread to get stuck in a loop. (CVE-2017-2670)

    * Privilege escalation with security manager's reflective permissions when granted to Hibernate Validator.
    (CVE-2017-7536)

    * Potential http request smuggling as Undertow parses the http headers with unusual whitespaces.
    (CVE-2017-7559)

    * Properties based files of the management and the application realm are world readable allowing access to     users and roles information to all the users logged in to the system. (CVE-2017-12167)

    * RBAC configuration allows users with a Monitor role to view the sensitive information. (CVE-2016-7061)

    * Improper whitespace parsing leading to potential HTTP request smuggling. (CVE-2017-12165)

    Red Hat would like to thank Liao Xinxi (NSFOCUS) for reporting CVE-2017-7525; Calum Hutton (NCC Group) and     Mikhail Egorov (Odin) for reporting CVE-2016-4993; Luca Bueti for reporting CVE-2016-6311; Gabriel Lavoie     (Halogen Software) for reporting CVE-2016-9589; and Gregory Ramsperger and Ryan Moak for reporting     CVE-2017-2670. The CVE-2016-5406 issue was discovered by Tomaz Cerar (Red Hat); the CVE-2016-8627 issue     was discovered by Darran Lofthouse (Red Hat) and Brian Stansberry (Red Hat); the CVE-2017-2666 issue was     discovered by Radim Hatlapatka (Red Hat); the CVE-2017-7536 issue was discovered by Gunnar Morling (Red     Hat); the CVE-2017-7559 and CVE-2017-12165 issues were discovered by Stuart Douglas (Red Hat); and the     CVE-2017-12167 issue was discovered by Brian Stansberry (Red Hat) and Jeremy Choi (Red Hat). Upstream     acknowledges WildFly as the original reporter of CVE-2016-6311.

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.

An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is a platform for Java applications based on the JBoss Application Server.

This release of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1.0 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0.0, and includes bug fixes and enhancements, which are documented in the Release Notes document linked to in the References.

Security Fix(es) :

* A Denial of Service can be caused when a long request is sent to EAP 7. (CVE-2016-7046)

* The jboss init script unsafe file handling resulting in local privilege escalation. (CVE-2016-8656)

* A deserialization vulnerability via readValue method of ObjectMapper which allows arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2017-7525)

* JMSObjectMessage deserializes potentially malicious objects allowing Remote Code Execution. (CVE-2016-4978)

* Undertow is vulnerable to the injection of arbitrary HTTP headers, and also response splitting. (CVE-2016-4993)

* The domain controller will not propagate its administrative RBAC configuration to some slaves leading to escalate their privileges.
(CVE-2016-5406)

* Internal IP address disclosed on redirect when request header Host field is not set. (CVE-2016-6311)

* Potential EAP resource starvation DOS attack via GET requests for server log files. (CVE-2016-8627)

* Inefficient Header Cache could cause denial of service.
(CVE-2016-9589)

* The log file viewer allows arbitrary file read to authenticated user via path traversal. (CVE-2017-2595)

* HTTP Request smuggling vulnerability due to permitting invalid characters in HTTP requests. (CVE-2017-2666)

* Websocket non clean close can cause IO thread to get stuck in a loop. (CVE-2017-2670)

* Privilege escalation with security manager's reflective permissions when granted to Hibernate Validator. (CVE-2017-7536)

* Potential http request smuggling as Undertow parses the http headers with unusual whitespaces. (CVE-2017-7559)

* Properties based files of the management and the application realm are world readable allowing access to users and roles information to all the users logged in to the system. (CVE-2017-12167)

* RBAC configuration allows users with a Monitor role to view the sensitive information. (CVE-2016-7061)

* Improper whitespace parsing leading to potential HTTP request smuggling. (CVE-2017-12165)

Red Hat would like to thank Liao Xinxi (NSFOCUS) for reporting CVE-2017-7525; Calum Hutton (NCC Group) and Mikhail Egorov (Odin) for reporting CVE-2016-4993; Luca Bueti for reporting CVE-2016-6311;
Gabriel Lavoie (Halogen Software) for reporting CVE-2016-9589; and Gregory Ramsperger and Ryan Moak for reporting CVE-2017-2670. The CVE-2016-5406 issue was discovered by Tomaz Cerar (Red Hat); the CVE-2016-8627 issue was discovered by Darran Lofthouse (Red Hat) and Brian Stansberry (Red Hat); the CVE-2017-2666 issue was discovered by Radim Hatlapatka (Red Hat); the CVE-2017-7536 issue was discovered by Gunnar Morling (Red Hat); the CVE-2017-7559 and CVE-2017-12165 issues were discovered by Stuart Douglas (Red Hat); and the CVE-2017-12167 issue was discovered by Brian Stansberry (Red Hat) and Jeremy Choi (Red Hat). Upstream acknowledges WildFly as the original reporter of CVE-2016-6311.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2017:3458 advisory.

    The eap7-jboss-ec2-eap packages provide scripts for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform running     on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).

    With this update, the eap7-jboss-ec2-eap package has been updated to ensure compatibility with Red Hat     JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1.

    Refer to the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 Release Notes, linked to in the References section,     for information on the most significant bug fixes and enhancements included in this release.

    Security Fix(es):

    * A Denial of Service can be caused when a long request is sent to EAP 7. (CVE-2016-7046)

    * The jboss init script unsafe file handling resulting in local privilege escalation. (CVE-2016-8656)

    * A deserialization vulnerability via readValue method of ObjectMapper which allows arbitrary code     execution. (CVE-2017-7525)

    * JMSObjectMessage deserializes potentially malicious objects allowing Remote Code Execution.
    (CVE-2016-4978)

    * Undertow is vulnerable to the injection of arbitrary HTTP headers, and also response splitting.
    (CVE-2016-4993)

    * The domain controller will not propagate its administrative RBAC configuration to some slaves leading to     escalate their privileges. (CVE-2016-5406)

    * Internal IP address disclosed on redirect when request header Host field is not set. (CVE-2016-6311)

    * Potential EAP resource starvation DOS attack via GET requests for server log files. (CVE-2016-8627)

    * Inefficient Header Cache could cause denial of service. (CVE-2016-9589)

    * The log file viewer allows arbitrary file read to authenticated user via path traversal. (CVE-2017-2595)

    * HTTP Request smuggling vulnerability due to permitting invalid characters in HTTP requests.
    (CVE-2017-2666)

    * Websocket non clean close can cause IO thread to get stuck in a loop. (CVE-2017-2670)

    * Privilege escalation with security manager's reflective permissions when granted to Hibernate Validator.
    (CVE-2017-7536)

    * Potential http request smuggling as Undertow parses the http headers with unusual whitespaces.
    (CVE-2017-7559)

    * Properties based files of the management and the application realm are world readable allowing access to     users and roles information to all the users logged in to the system. (CVE-2017-12167)

    * RBAC configuration allows users with a Monitor role to view the sensitive information. (CVE-2016-7061)

    * Improper whitespace parsing leading to potential HTTP request smuggling. (CVE-2017-12165)

    Red Hat would like to thank Liao Xinxi (NSFOCUS) for reporting CVE-2017-7525; Calum Hutton (NCC Group) and     Mikhail Egorov (Odin) for reporting CVE-2016-4993; Luca Bueti for reporting CVE-2016-6311; Gabriel Lavoie     (Halogen Software) for reporting CVE-2016-9589; and Gregory Ramsperger and Ryan Moak for reporting     CVE-2017-2670. The CVE-2016-5406 issue was discovered by Tomaz Cerar (Red Hat); the CVE-2016-8627 issue     was discovered by Darran Lofthouse (Red Hat) and Brian Stansberry (Red Hat); the CVE-2017-2666 issue was     discovered by Radim Hatlapatka (Red Hat); the CVE-2017-7536 issue was discovered by Gunnar Morling (Red     Hat); the CVE-2017-7559 and CVE-2017-12165 issues were discovered by Stuart Douglas (Red Hat); and the     CVE-2017-12167 issue was discovered by Brian Stansberry (Red Hat) and Jeremy Choi (Red Hat). Upstream     acknowledges WildFly as the original reporter of CVE-2016-6311.

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.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
112251	RHEL 6 / 7 : JBoss EAP (RHSA-2016:2642)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
112250	RHEL 7 : JBoss EAP (RHSA-2016:2641)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
112249	RHEL 6 : JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0.3 on RHEL 6 (Important) (RHSA-2016:2640)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
105269	RHEL 7 : Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1.0 (RHSA-2017:3455)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
105268	RHEL 6 : JBoss EAP (RHSA-2017:3454)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
105252	RHEL 6 / 7 : eap7-jboss-ec2-eap (RHSA-2017:3458)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical

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