RHEL 7 / 8 / 9 : Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 Security update (Critical) (RHSA-2024:7811)

high Nessus Plugin ID 208275

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 / 8 / 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:7811 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):

* apache-avro: Schema parsing may trigger Remote Code Execution (CVE-2024-47561)

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 affected eap7-avro package.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 208275

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-7811.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 10/8/2024

Updated: 10/8/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-47561

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.3

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-avro, 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: 10/8/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/3/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-47561

CWE: 502

RHSA: 2024:7811

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