RHEL 9 : Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.7 Security update (Important) (RHSA-2022:6823)

high Nessus Plugin ID 165981

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:6823 advisory.

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 is a platform for Java applications based on the WildFly application runtime. This release of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.7 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.6, and includes bug fixes and enhancements. See the Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.7 Release Notes for information about the most significant bug fixes and enhancements included in this release.

Security Fix(es):

* undertow: Large AJP request may cause DoS (CVE-2022-2053)

* undertow: potential security issue in flow control over HTTP/2 may lead to DOS. Incomplete fix for CVE-2021-3629 (CVE-2022-1259)

* snakeyaml: Denial of Service due missing to nested depth limitation for collections. (CVE-2022-25857)

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 eap7-snakeyaml and / or eap7-undertow packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 165981

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-6823.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 10/10/2022

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: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-25857

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-undertow, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-snakeyaml, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9

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: 10/5/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/5/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-1259, CVE-2022-2053, CVE-2022-25857

CWE: 400, 770

RHSA: 2022:6823

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