RHEL 5 / 6 : resteasy (RHSA-2012:1059)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 64046

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for resteasy.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2012:1059 advisory.

- RESTEasy: XML eXternal Entity (XXE) flaw (CVE-2011-5245, CVE-2012-0818)

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 resteasy package based on the guidance in RHSA-2012:1059.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?5b358b09

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=785631

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012:1059

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 64046

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2012-1059.nasl

Version: 1.22

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/24/2013

Updated: 4/27/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

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-2012-0818

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: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:resteasy-manual, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:resteasy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:resteasy-examples, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:resteasy-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: 7/5/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/23/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-5245, CVE-2012-0818

BID: 51748

CWE: 611

RHSA: 2012:1059