RHEL 6 : JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0.4 on RHEL 6 (Moderate) (RHSA-2017:0170)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 96971

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2017:0170 advisory.

This release of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0.4 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0.3, and includes bug fixes and enhancements, which are documented in the Release Notes, linked to in the References section.

Security Fix(es):

* An EAP feature to download server log files allows logs to be available via GET requests making them vulnerable to cross-origin attacks. An attacker could trigger the user's browser to request the log files consuming enough resources that normal server functioning could be impaired. (CVE-2016-8627)

* It was discovered that when configuring RBAC and marking information as sensitive, users with a Monitor role are able to view the sensitive information. (CVE-2016-7061)

The CVE-2016-8627 issue was discovered by Darran Lofthouse and Brian Stansberry (Red Hat).

Before applying this update, back up your existing Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform installation and deployed applications.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?673d2fa7

http://www.nessus.org/u?85cfe5e0

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0170

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1380852

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1388240

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/JBEAP-5960

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 96971

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2017-0170.nasl

Version: 3.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/3/2017

Updated: 4/15/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-7061

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/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:eap7-apache-cxf-rt, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-ironjacamar-common-impl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-resteasy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-picketlink-config, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-resteasy-jettison-provider, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-infinispan, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jboss-aesh, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jboss-ejb-client, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jboss-genericjms, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-picketlink-bindings, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-resteasy-atom-provider, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-resteasy-validator-provider-11, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-wildfly-modules, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-wss4j, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-ironjacamar-validator, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-narayana-restat-api, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-narayana, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-resteasy-jaxb-provider, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-wildfly, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-picketlink-wildfly8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-resteasy-cdi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-picketlink-api, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-picketlink-federation, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-resteasy-client, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-resteasy-multipart-provider, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-resteasy-jackson-provider, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-ironjacamar, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-narayana-jbosstxbridge, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-resteasy-spring, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-infinispan-client-hotrod, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-wss4j-ws-security-dom, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-infinispan-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-narayana-restat-util, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-narayana-restat-bridge, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-narayana-restat-integration, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-narayana-jts-idlj, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-resteasy-jackson2-provider, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-resteasy-jsapi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-wildfly-web-console-eap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jboss-xnio-base, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-picketlink-idm-impl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-wss4j-bindings, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-wss4j-ws-security-stax, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-ironjacamar-common-api, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-resteasy-json-p-provider, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-ironjacamar-core-api, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-infinispan-commons, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-resteasy-jose-jwt, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-wss4j-ws-security-policy-stax, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-apache-cxf-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-ironjacamar-core-impl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-wss4j-policy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-resteasy-async-http-servlet-3.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-picketlink-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-narayana-compensations, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-resteasy-yaml-provider, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-apache-cxf-services, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-picketlink-idm-simple-schema, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-apache-cxf, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-picketlink-impl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-ironjacamar-deployers-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-narayana-jbossxts, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-narayana-jts-integration, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-wss4j-ws-security-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jboss-transaction-spi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-wildfly-javadocs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-infinispan-cachestore-remote, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-resteasy-jaxrs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-xml-security, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-ironjacamar-jdbc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-ironjacamar-common-spi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-narayana-txframework, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-infinispan-cachestore-jdbc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-picketlink-idm-api, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-resteasy-crypto

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: 1/20/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/11/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-7061, CVE-2016-8627

CWE: 200, 400

RHSA: 2017:0170