RHEL 7 : resteasy-base (RHSA-2016:2604)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 94567

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for resteasy-base.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2016:2604 advisory.

RESTEasy contains a JBoss project that provides frameworks to help build RESTful Web Services and RESTful Java applications. It is a fully certified and portable implementation of the JAX-RS specification.

Security Fix(es):

* It was discovered that under certain conditions RESTEasy could be forced to parse a request with SerializableProvider, resulting in deserialization of potentially untrusted data. An attacker could possibly use this flaw to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the application using RESTEasy.
(CVE-2016-7050)

Red Hat would like to thank Mikhail Egorov (Odin) for reporting this issue.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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 resteasy-base package based on the guidance in RHSA-2016:2604.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 94567

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2016-2604.nasl

Version: 2.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 11/4/2016

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: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-7050

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:resteasy-base-client, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:resteasy-base-jackson-provider, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:resteasy-base-jaxb-provider, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:resteasy-base-resteasy-pom, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:resteasy-base-jaxrs-all, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:resteasy-base-tjws, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:resteasy-base-providers-pom, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:resteasy-base-jaxrs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:resteasy-base-jaxrs-api, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:resteasy-base, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:resteasy-base-jettison-provider, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:resteasy-base-atom-provider, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:resteasy-base-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: 11/3/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/8/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-7050

CWE: 502

RHSA: 2016:2604

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