RHEL 7 : rh-maven36-log4j12 (RHSA-2021:5269)

high Nessus Plugin ID 156261

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for rh-maven36-log4j12.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2021:5269 advisory.

Log4j is a tool to help the programmer output log statements to a variety of output targets.

Security Fix(es):

* log4j: Remote code execution in Log4j 1.x when application is configured to use JMSAppender (CVE-2021-4104)

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 rh-maven36-log4j12 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2021:5269.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?794f1906

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

https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/RHSB-2021-009

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:5269

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2031667

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 156261

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2021-5269.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/23/2021

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: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-4104

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-maven36-log4j12, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-maven36-log4j12-javadoc, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

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: 12/22/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/14/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-4104

CWE: 20

IAVA: 2021-A-0573

RHSA: 2021:5269