RHEL 6 : spacewalk-java (RHSA-2014:1184)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 234415

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for spacewalk-java.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2014:1184 advisory.

Red Hat Satellite is a systems management tool for Linux-based infrastructures. It allows for provisioning, monitoring, and remote management of multiple Linux deployments with a single, centralized tool.
The spacewalk-java packages contain the code for the Java version of the Spacewalk Web site.

A stored cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw was found in the way spacewalk-java displayed log files. By sending a specially crafted request to Satellite, a remote attacker could embed HTML content into the log file, allowing them to inject malicious content into the web page that is used to view that log file. (CVE-2014-3595)

Red Hat would like to thank Ron Bowes of Google for reporting this issue.

All spacewalk-java 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 spacewalk-java package based on the guidance in RHSA-2014:1184.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 234415

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2014-1184.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 4/15/2025

Updated: 4/15/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-3595

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-java-oracle, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-taskomatic, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-java-postgresql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-java, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-java-config, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-java-lib

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: 9/11/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/13/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3595

CWE: 79

RHSA: 2014:1184

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