Oracle GlassFish Server URL normalization Denial of Service

high Nessus Plugin ID 110612

Synopsis

The remote application is vulnerable to a denial of service attack.

Description

The instance of Oracle GlassFish Server running on the remote host is affected by an authenticated and unauthenticated denial of service vulnerability.

The vulnerability is a result of an infinite loop in the normalize() method in com.sun.jsftemplating.util.fileStreamer.ResourceContentSource.

A remote attacker can exploit this issue, via a specially crafted HTTP request to Admin Console component.

Solution

Contact to vendor for patch options.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?81fcff67

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 110612

File Name: glassfish4_jsftemplating_normalization_dos.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: remote

Family: CGI abuses

Published: 6/19/2018

Updated: 9/17/2018

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

CVSS Score Rationale: An in depth analysis by tenable researchers revealed the access complexity to be high.

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: manual

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:oracle:glassfish_server

Required KB Items: www/glassfish, www/glassfish/console

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/12/2018

Reference Information