RHEL 5 / 6 : jbossweb (RHSA-2013:0164)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 64077

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for jbossweb.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2013:0164 advisory.

- Tomcat/JBoss Web: Bypass of security constraints (CVE-2012-3546)

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 jbossweb package based on the guidance in RHSA-2013:0164.

See Also

http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html

http://www.nessus.org/u?3fd51617

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:0164

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=883634

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 64077

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2013-0164.nasl

Version: 1.24

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: 2.2

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-2012-3546

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbossweb, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbossweb-lib, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6

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: 1/15/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/19/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-3546

BID: 56812

RHSA: 2013:0164