RHEL 6 / 7 : JBoss Core Services (RHSA-2016:1851) (httpoxy)

high Nessus Plugin ID 93502

Synopsis

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

Description

Updated packages are available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7 that provide Red Hat JBoss Core Services Service Pack 1 fixing one security issue.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

This release of Red Hat JBoss Core Services Service Pack 1 serves as a replacement for JBoss Core Services Apache HTTP Server.

Security Fix(es) :

* It was discovered that Apache HTTP Server used the value of the Proxy header from HTTP requests to initialize the HTTP_PROXY environment variable for CGI scripts, which in turn was incorrectly used by certain HTTP client implementations to configure the proxy for outgoing HTTP requests. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to redirect HTTP requests performed by a CGI script to an attacker-controlled proxy via a malicious HTTP request.
(CVE-2016-5387)

Note: After this update, Apache HTTP Server will no longer pass the value of the Proxy request header to scripts via the HTTP_PROXY environment variable.

Red Hat would like to thank Scott Geary (VendHQ) for reporting this issue.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1851

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-5387

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 93502

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2016-1851.nasl

Version: 2.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/15/2016

Updated: 10/24/2019

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-httpd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-httpd-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-httpd-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-httpd-manual, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-httpd-src-zip, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-httpd-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-httpd-zip, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-mod_ldap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-mod_proxy_html, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-mod_session, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jbcs-httpd24-mod_ssl, 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 Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/12/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/19/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-5387

RHSA: 2016:1851