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RHEL 8 / 9 : Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.0 (RHSA-2024:2764)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 195174

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.0.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 / 9 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:2764 advisory.

 Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8 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 8.0.

 Security Fix(es):

 * undertow: Cookie Smuggling/Spoofing (CVE-2023-4639)
 * undertow: Directory traversal vulnerability (CVE-2024-1459)
 * undertow: Unrestricted request storage leads to memory exhaustion (CVE-2023-1973)

 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 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 8.0 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:2764.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?958edf0b

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2764

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2166022

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 195174

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-2764.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/8/2024

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: Medium

Score: 5.2

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-1459

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-undertow, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9

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: 5/8/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/12/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-1973, CVE-2023-4639, CVE-2024-1459

CWE: 20, 24, 444

RHSA: 2024:2764