RHEL 7 : xmlrpc (RHSA-2018:1780)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 110281

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2018:1780 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 xmlrpc package based on the guidance in RHSA-2018:1780.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 110281

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-1780.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

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: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xmlrpc-client, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xmlrpc-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xmlrpc-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xmlrpc-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xmlrpc

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: 2018:1780

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