RHEL 7 : rh-maven35-slf4j (RHSA-2018:0582)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 194062

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for rh-maven35-slf4j.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2018:0582 advisory.

The Simple Logging Facade for Java or (SLF4J) is a simple facade for various logging APIs allowing the end-user to plug in the desired implementation at deployment time. SLF4J also allows for a gradual migration path away from Jakarta Commons Logging (JCL).

Security Fix(es):

* slf4j: Deserialisation vulnerability in EventData constructor can allow for arbitrary code execution (CVE-2018-8088)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Red Hat would like to thank Chris McCown for reporting this issue.

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-slf4j package based on the guidance in RHSA-2018:0582.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 194062

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-0582.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 4/27/2024

Updated: 11/5/2024

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: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-8088

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-maven35-slf4j-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-maven35-jcl-over-slf4j, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-maven35-log4j-over-slf4j, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-maven35-jul-to-slf4j, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-maven35-slf4j-ext, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-maven35-slf4j-sources, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-maven35-slf4j-jcl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-maven35-slf4j-log4j12, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-maven35-slf4j-manual, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-maven35-slf4j, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-maven35-slf4j-jdk14

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/26/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/22/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-8088

CWE: 502

RHSA: 2018:0582

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