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RHEL 6 / 7 / 8 : Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.2 security (Important) (RHSA-2019:3929)

high Nessus Plugin ID 131214

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 / 7 / 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:3929 advisory.

 Red Hat JBoss Web Server is a fully integrated and certified set of components for hosting Java web applications. It is comprised of the Apache Tomcat Servlet container, JBoss HTTP Connector (mod_cluster), the PicketLink Vault extension for Apache Tomcat, and the Tomcat Native library.

 This release of Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.2 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.1, and includes bug fixes, enhancements, and component upgrades, which are documented in the Release Notes, linked to in the References.

 Security Fix(es):

 * openssl: Side-channel vulnerability on SMT/Hyper-Threading architectures (PortSmash) (CVE-2018-5407)

 * openssl: 0-byte record padding oracle (CVE-2019-1559)

 * tomcat: HTTP/2 connection window exhaustion on write, incomplete fix of CVE-2019-0199 (CVE-2019-10072)

 * tomcat: XSS in SSI printenv (CVE-2019-0221)

 * tomcat: Apache Tomcat HTTP/2 DoS (CVE-2019-0199)

 For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, 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 these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1683804

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1693325

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1713275

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1723708

http://www.nessus.org/u?d8c8a7fa

http://www.nessus.org/u?dfd5659a

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3929

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1645695

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 131214

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-3929.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/22/2019

Updated: 11/6/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 8.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-0232

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jws5-mod_cluster, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jws5-tomcat-jsp-2.3-api, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jws5-python-javapackages, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jws5-tomcat-docs-webapp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jws5-javapackages-tools, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jws5-tomcat-selinux, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jws5-tomcat-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jws5-tomcat-el-3.0-api, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jws5-tomcat-servlet-4.0-api, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jws5-tomcat, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jws5-tomcat-vault, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jws5-tomcat-admin-webapps, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jws5-mod_cluster-tomcat, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jws5-ecj, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jws5-tomcat-native, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jws5-tomcat-lib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jws5-tomcat-webapps, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jws5-jboss-logging, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jws5-tomcat-vault-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: 11/20/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/15/2018

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Apache Tomcat CGIServlet enableCmdLineArguments Vulnerability)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-5407, CVE-2019-0199, CVE-2019-0221, CVE-2019-0232, CVE-2019-10072, CVE-2019-1559

CWE: 20, 200, 325, 400, 79

RHSA: 2019:3929