RHEL 7 / 8 / 9 : Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 (RHSA-2023:5920)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 183401

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 / 8 / 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:5920 advisory.

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 is a platform for Java applications based on the WildFly application runtime.

This asynchronous patch is a security update for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.

Security Fix(es):

* undertow/netty-codec-http2: HTTP/2: Multiple HTTP/2 enabled web servers are vulnerable to a DDoS attack (CVE-2023-44487)

A Red Hat Security Bulletin which addresses further details about this flaw is available in the References section.

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgements, 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 Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2023:5920.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 183401

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-5920.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 10/19/2023

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: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-44487

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 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:F/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.3

Threat Score: 9.3

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:A

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-wildfly-modules, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty-handler-proxy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-wildfly, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty-transport-rxtx, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-wildfly-java-jdk17, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty-codec-mqtt, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-wildfly-java-jdk8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty-codec-redis, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty-transport-native-epoll, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty-transport-sctp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty-resolver-dns-classes-macos, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty-transport-classes-epoll, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty-resolver-dns, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty-codec-xml, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty-codec-smtp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty-handler, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty-codec-dns, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty-transport-classes-kqueue, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty-transport-udt, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty-transport, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-wildfly-java-jdk11, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-undertow, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty-codec-http2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty-codec-memcache, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty-codec-haproxy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty-codec, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty-buffer, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty-resolver, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty-codec-http, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty-codec-stomp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty-codec-socks, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty-transport-native-unix-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-netty-all

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: 10/19/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/10/2023

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 10/31/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-44487

CWE: 400

IAVB: 2023-B-0083-S

RHSA: 2023:5920

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