RHEL 6 : xmlrpc3 (RHSA-2018:1779)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 110280

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for xmlrpc3.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2018:1779 advisory.

- xmlrpc: Deserialization of untrusted Java object through <ex:serializable> tag (CVE-2016-5003)

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 xmlrpc3 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2018:1779.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?2a6587d9

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1779

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1508123

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 110280

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-1779.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/1/2018

Updated: 9/26/2024

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: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-5003

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xmlrpc3-client, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xmlrpc3-common, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xmlrpc3, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xmlrpc3-server-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xmlrpc3-common-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xmlrpc3-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xmlrpc3-client-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xmlrpc3-javadoc

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/31/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/27/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-5003

CWE: 502

RHSA: 2018:1779