RHEL 9 : Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (RHSA-2023:4507)

high Nessus Plugin ID 179410

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:4507 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 7.4.12 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.11 and includes bug fixes and enhancements. See the Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.12 Release Notes for information about the most significant bug fixes and enhancements included in this release.

Security Fix(es):

* undertow: OutOfMemoryError due to @MultipartConfig handling (CVE-2023-3223)

* jackson-databind: Possible DoS if using JDK serialization to serialize JsonNode (CVE-2021-46877)

* jettison: Uncontrolled Recursion in JSONArray (CVE-2023-1436)

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

Solution

Update the RHEL Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform package based on the guidance in RHSA-2023:4507.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?327e7d12

http://www.nessus.org/u?95a15247

http://www.nessus.org/u?b2b4c5f2

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2182788

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2185707

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2209689

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/JBEAP-24711

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/JBEAP-24722

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/JBEAP-24744

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/JBEAP-24745

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/JBEAP-24790

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/JBEAP-24808

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/JBEAP-24819

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/JBEAP-24820

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/JBEAP-24821

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/JBEAP-24822

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/JBEAP-24831

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/JBEAP-24832

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/JBEAP-24835

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/JBEAP-24836

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/JBEAP-24858

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/JBEAP-24973

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/JBEAP-25004

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/JBEAP-25085

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/JBEAP-25086

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/JBEAP-25204

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/JBEAP-25205

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:4507

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 179410

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-4507.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/7/2023

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-2023-3223

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: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-wildfly-modules, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-undertow, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-wildfly-javadocs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-wildfly, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jettison, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-wildfly-java-jdk17, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-wildfly-java-jdk11, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-wildfly-java-jdk8

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: 8/7/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/18/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-46877, CVE-2023-1436, CVE-2023-3223

CWE: 400, 674, 789

RHSA: 2023:4507