RHEL 5 / 6 : Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (RHSA-2018:1609)

high Nessus Plugin ID 109991

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:1609 advisory.

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

Security Fix(es):

* jboss: jbossas: unsafe chown of server.log in jboss init script allows privilege escalation (CVE-2016-8656)

* jboss: jbossas writable config files allow privilege escalation (CVE-2016-8657)

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 these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform package based on the guidance in RHSA-2018:1609.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 109991

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-1609.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 5/23/2018

Updated: 11/5/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-8657

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbossas-ws-native, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbossas, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbossas-client, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbossas-messaging

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: 5/17/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/22/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-8656, CVE-2016-8657

CWE: 284, 732

RHSA: 2018:1609

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