RHEL 5 / 6 / 7 : Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.3 (RHSA-2015:2536)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 87191

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.3.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 / 6 / 7 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2015:2536 advisory.

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 is a platform for Java applications based on JBoss Application Server 7.

It was found that the Apache commons-collections library permitted code execution when deserializing objects involving a specially constructed chain of classes. A remote attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the application using the commons-collections library. (CVE-2015-7501)

Further information about this security flaw may be found at:
https://access.redhat.com/solutions/2045023

All users of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.3 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 are advised to upgrade to these updated packages.
The JBoss server process must be restarted for the 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 Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.3 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2015:2536.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 87191

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2015-2536.nasl

Version: 2.22

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 12/4/2015

Updated: 11/4/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-7501

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:apache-commons-collections-eap6, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

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: 12/1/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/9/2017

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-7501

CWE: 284

RHSA: 2015:2536

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