RHEL 6 / 7 : jboss-ec2-eap package for EAP 7.1.2 (Important) (RHSA-2018:1249)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 109390

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:1249 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 7.1.2.

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):

* undertow: HTTP header injection using CRLF with UTF-8 Encoding (incomplete fix of CVE-2016-4993) (CVE-2018-1067)

* wildfly-undertow: undertow: Path traversal in ServletResourceManager class (CVE-2018-1047)

* slf4j: Deserialisation vulnerability in EventData constructor can allow for arbitrary code execution (CVE-2018-8088)

Red Hat would like to thank Ammarit Thongthua and Nattakit Intarasorn (Deloitte Thailand Pentest team) for reporting CVE-2018-1067, and Chris McCown for reporting CVE-2018-8088.

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 eap7-jboss-ec2-eap and / or eap7-jboss-ec2-eap-samples packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?7ca504e0

http://www.nessus.org/u?bf165061

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1249

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1528361

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1548909

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1550671

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/JBEAP-14137

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 109390

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-1249.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/27/2018

Updated: 4/15/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-8088

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jboss-ec2-eap, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jboss-ec2-eap-samples, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

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: 4/25/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/24/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1047, CVE-2018-1067, CVE-2018-8088

CWE: 113, 22, 502

RHSA: 2018:1249