RHEL 6 / 7 / 8 : Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.3 (Important) (RHSA-2020:1520)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 135773

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-2020:1520 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 5.3 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.2, and includes bug fixes, enhancements, and component upgrades, which are documented in the Release Notes, linked to in the References.

Security Fix(es):

* tomcat: Apache Tomcat AJP File Read/Inclusion Vulnerability (CVE-2020-1938)
* tomcat: local privilege escalation (CVE-2019-12418)
* tomcat: session fixation (CVE-2019-17563)
* tomcat: Regression in handling of Transfer-Encoding header allows for HTTP request smuggling (CVE-2019-17569)
* tomcat: Mishandling of Transfer-Encoding header allows for HTTP request smuggling (CVE-2020-1935)

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

http://www.nessus.org/u?a05d8412

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1520

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1785699

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1785711

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1806398

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1806835

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1806849

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/JWS-1419

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/JWS-1463

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/JWS-1465

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/JWS-1478

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 135773

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-1520.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/21/2020

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.0

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-1938

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.4

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:H/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: 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-native, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jws5-tomcat-el-3.0-api, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jws5-tomcat-servlet-4.0-api, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jws5-tomcat, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jws5-tomcat-lib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jws5-tomcat-docs-webapp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jws5-tomcat-webapps, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jws5-tomcat-admin-webapps, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jws5-tomcat-jsp-2.3-api, 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: 4/21/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/23/2019

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 3/17/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-12418, CVE-2019-17563, CVE-2019-17569, CVE-2020-1935, CVE-2020-1938

CWE: 284, 285, 384, 444

IAVA: 2020-A-0140, 2020-A-0321-S, 2020-A-0328

IAVB: 2020-B-0010-S

RHSA: 2020:1520