RHEL 8 / 9 : Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.0 (RHSA-2024:4390)

high Nessus Plugin ID 201971

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.0.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 / 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:4390 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):

* HTTP-2: httpd: CONTINUATION frames DoS (CVE-2024-27316)

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 8.0 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:4390.

See Also

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

http://www.nessus.org/u?919aa761

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2268277

http://www.nessus.org/u?ff6692f1

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4390

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 201971

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-4390.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/8/2024

Updated: 7/8/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-27316

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-wildfly, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-wildfly-java-jdk11, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-hibernate-envers, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-jboss-xnio-base, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-undertow, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-wildfly-modules, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-jose4j, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-wildfly-java-jdk17, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-hibernate, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-jboss-remoting, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-hibernate-core

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: 7/8/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/4/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-27316

CWE: 400

RHSA: 2024:4390