RHEL 6 / 7 : thermostat1-thermostat (RHSA-2014:2000)

high Nessus Plugin ID 233018

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for thermostat1-thermostat.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2014:2000 advisory.

Thermostat is a monitoring and instrumentation tool for the OpenJDK HotSpot Java Virtual Machine (JVM) with support for monitoring multiple JVM instances.

It was discovered that, in certain configurations, the Thermostat agent disclosed JMX management URLs of all local Java virtual machines to any local user. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to escalate their privileges on the system. (CVE-2014-8120)

This issue was discovered by Elliott Baron of Red Hat.

All thermostat1-thermostat users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct 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 thermostat1-thermostat package based on the guidance in RHSA-2014:2000.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 233018

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2014-2000.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 3/20/2025

Updated: 3/20/2025

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: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-8120

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:thermostat1-thermostat, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:thermostat1-thermostat-webapp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:thermostat1-thermostat-javadoc

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: 12/16/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/16/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-8120

CWE: 200

RHSA: 2014:2000

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