RHEL 7 : rh-maven35-apache-commons-collections4 (RHSA-2020:4274)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 170296

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for rh-maven35-apache-commons-collections4.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:4274 advisory.

The Apache Commons Collections library provides new interfaces, implementations, and utilities to extend the features of the Java Collections Framework.

Security Fix(es):

* apache-commons-collections: InvokerTransformer code execution during deserialisation (CVE-2015-7501)

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-maven35-apache-commons-collections4 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2020:4274.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?58dc04cb

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

https://access.redhat.com/solutions/2045023

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4274

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1279330

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 170296

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-4274.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/23/2023

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-7501

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.1

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:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-maven35-apache-commons-collections4, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-maven35-apache-commons-collections4-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: 10/19/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/6/2015

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-7501

CWE: 284

RHSA: 2020:4274