RHEL 6 : jboss-ec2-eap (RHSA-2012:1376)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 64058

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for jboss-ec2-eap.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2012:1376 advisory.

jboss-ec2-eap provides JBoss Operations Network (JBoss ON) scripts for JBoss Enterprise Application Platform running on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).

It was found that the /var/cache/jboss-ec2-eap/ directory had world readable permissions when using the EC2 AMI (Amazon Machine Image) for JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.1.2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. A local attacker could use this flaw to read potentially sensitive information from this directory, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) credentials. (CVE-2012-3427)

Note: This flaw only affected the EC2 AMI for JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.1.2.

This issue was discovered by Aleksandar Kostadinov of the Red Hat QE Team.

Warning: Before applying this update, back up your JBoss Enterprise Application Platform's server/[PROFILE]/deploy/ directory, along with all other customized configuration files.

Users of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.1.2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 running on EC2 should upgrade to this updated package, which corrects this issue. The JBoss server process must be restarted for this update to take effect.

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 jboss-ec2-eap package based on the guidance in RHSA-2012:1376.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 64058

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2012-1376.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 1/24/2013

Updated: 11/4/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.0

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-3427

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-ec2-eap, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/16/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/2/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-3427

BID: 55945

RHSA: 2012:1376

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