The IIOP OpenJDK Subsystem in WildFly before version 14.0.0 does not honour configuration when SSL transport is required. Servers before this version that are configured with the following setting allow clients to create plaintext connections: <transport-config confidentiality="required" trust-in-target="supported"/>

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 Moderate. 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 7.1.5 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1.4, and includes bug fixes and enhancements, which are documented in the Release Notes document linked to in the References.

Security Fix(es) :

* wildfly-iiop-openjdk: iiop does not honour strict transport confidentiality (CVE-2018-14627)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2018:3528 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 7.1.5 serves as a replacement for Red Hat     JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1.4, and includes bug fixes and enhancements, which are documented     in the Release Notes document linked to in the References.

    Security Fix(es):

    * wildfly-iiop-openjdk: iiop does not honour strict transport confidentiality (CVE-2018-14627)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, 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 this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
118945	RHEL 6 : JBoss EAP (RHSA-2018:3529)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
118944	RHEL 7 : Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1.5 on RHEL 7 (RHSA-2018:3528)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2018-14627

medium

Tenable Plugins

medium

medium