RHEL 6 : jboss-ec2-eap (RHSA-2017:0250)

high Nessus Plugin ID 96973

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-2017:0250 advisory.

- tomcat: HTTP Request smuggling vulnerability due to permitting invalid character in HTTP requests (CVE-2016-6816)

- EAP: Sensitive data can be exposed at the server level in domain mode (CVE-2016-7061)

- admin-cli: Potential EAP resource starvation DOS attack via GET requests for server log files (CVE-2016-8627)

- jboss: jbossas: unsafe chown of server.log in jboss init script allows privilege escalation (CVE-2016-8656)

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 jboss-ec2-eap and / or jboss-ec2-eap-samples packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?b3158857

http://www.nessus.org/u?cc1e8a78

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0250

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

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

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1397484

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1400344

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 96973

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2017-0250.nasl

Version: 3.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/3/2017

Updated: 4/24/2024

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: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-6816

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-8656

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-ec2-eap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-ec2-eap-samples, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6

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: 2/2/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/20/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-6816, CVE-2016-7061, CVE-2016-8627, CVE-2016-8656

CWE: 200, 284, 400, 444

RHSA: 2017:0250