RHEL 4 / 5 / 6 : JBoss EWP (RHSA-2014:0792)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 76291

Synopsis

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

Description

Updated packages for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Platform 5.2.0 that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, and 6.

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

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Platform is a platform for Java applications, which integrates the JBoss Web Server with JBoss Hibernate and JBoss Seam.

It was found that the org.jboss.seam.web.AuthenticationFilter class implementation did not properly use Seam logging. A remote attacker could send specially crafted authentication headers to an application, which could result in arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user running that application. (CVE-2014-0248)

The CVE-2014-0248 issue was discovered by Marek Schmidt of Red Hat.

All users of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Platform 5.2.0 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, and 6 are advised to upgrade to these updated packages. The JBoss server process must be restarted for the update to take effect.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:0792

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2014-0248

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 76291

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2014-0792.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/28/2014

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-seam2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-seam2-docs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-seam2-examples, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jboss-seam2-runtime, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6

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: 6/25/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/7/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-0248

BID: 68174

RHSA: 2014:0792