RHEL 7 : rh-maven35-jackson-databind (RHSA-2019:2743)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 194154

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2019:2743 advisory.

The jackson-databind package provides general data-binding functionality for Jackson, which works on top of Jackson core streaming API.

Security Fix(es):

* jackson-databind: default typing mishandling leading to remote code execution (CVE-2019-14379)

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-jackson-databind package based on the guidance in RHSA-2019:2743.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?81366659

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1737517

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2743

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 194154

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-2743.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/28/2024

Updated: 11/6/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, 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-2019-14379

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-jackson-databind, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-maven35-jackson-databind-javadoc, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

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: 9/13/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/29/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-14379

CWE: 502

RHSA: 2019:2743