RHEL 7 : Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.1 Service Pack 11 (RHSA-2021:0489)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 146432

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.1 Service Pack 11.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2021:0489 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 HTTP Server, the Apache Tomcat Servlet container, Apache Tomcat Connector (mod_jk), JBoss HTTP Connector (mod_cluster), Hibernate, and the Tomcat Native library.

This release of Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.1 Service Pack 11 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.1, and includes bug fixes, which are documented in the Release Notes document linked to in the References.

Security Fix(es):

* openssl: EDIPARTYNAME NULL pointer de-reference (CVE-2020-1971)

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

Solution

Update the RHEL Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.1 Service Pack 11 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2021:0489.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?b2a65032

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0489

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1903409

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/JWS-1938

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 146432

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2021-0489.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/11/2021

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: Medium

Score: 5.1

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-1971

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat-native, 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: 2/11/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/8/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-1971

CWE: 476

IAVA: 2020-A-0566-S, 2021-A-0038-S, 2021-A-0193-S, 2021-A-0196, 2021-A-0328

RHSA: 2021:0489