RHEL 8 : icedtea-web (RHSA-2019:2004)

high Nessus Plugin ID 127646

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for icedtea-web.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:2004 advisory.

- icedtea-web: unsigned code injection in a signed JAR file (CVE-2019-10181)

- icedtea-web: path traversal while processing <jar/> elements of JNLP files results in arbitrary file overwrite (CVE-2019-10182)

- icedtea-web: directory traversal in the nested jar auto-extraction leading to arbitrary file overwrite (CVE-2019-10185)

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 icedtea-web package based on the guidance in RHSA-2019:2004.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?c9fa5178

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2004

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1724958

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1724989

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1725928

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 127646

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-2004.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/12/2019

Updated: 4/27/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-10181

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-10185

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:icedtea-web, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:icedtea-web-javadoc, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8

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: 7/31/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/31/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-10181, CVE-2019-10182, CVE-2019-10185

CWE: 22, 345, 94

RHSA: 2019:2004