RHEL 6 / 7 / 8 : Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.2 (RHSA-2019:2973)

high Nessus Plugin ID 129804

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.2.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 / 7 / 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2019:2973 advisory.

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 is a platform for Java applications based on Wildfly.

This asynchronous patch is a security update for wildfly-security-manager package in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.2 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7, and 8.

Security Fix(es):

* wildfly: wildfly-security-manager: security manager authorization bypass (CVE-2019-14843)

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

Solution

Update the RHEL Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.2 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2019:2973.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?5ad39889

http://www.nessus.org/u?a519044e

http://www.nessus.org/u?fdc49160

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2973

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1752980

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 129804

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-2973.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/11/2019

Updated: 6/3/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-14843

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/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: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-wildfly-elytron, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

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: 10/7/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/7/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-14843

CWE: 592

RHSA: 2019:2973