RHEL 6 / 7 / 8 : Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 (RHSA-2020:5175)

high Nessus Plugin ID 143198

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 / 7 / 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:5175 advisory.

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 is a platform for Java applications based on the WildFly application runtime.

This asynchronous patch is a security update for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7, and 8.

Security Fix(es):

* hibernate-core: SQL injection vulnerability when both hibernate.use_sql_comments and JPQL String literals are used (CVE-2020-25638)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, see 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 7.3 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2020:5175.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 143198

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-5175.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 11/23/2020

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: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-25638

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.4

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-hibernate-core, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-hibernate-entitymanager, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-hibernate-envers, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-hibernate-java8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-hibernate, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8

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: 11/23/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/2/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-25638

CWE: 89

RHSA: 2020:5175

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