RHEL 6 / 7 : eap7-jboss-ec2-eap (RHSA-2017:0173)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 112174

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for eap7-jboss-ec2-eap.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2017:0173 advisory.

- 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)

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 RHEL eap7-jboss-ec2-eap package based on the guidance in RHSA-2017:0173.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?289824ee

http://www.nessus.org/u?e41b214b

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0173

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-5962

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 112174

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2017-0173.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/29/2018

Updated: 4/24/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

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-jboss-ec2-eap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jboss-ec2-eap-samples, 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

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: 2017:0173