RHEL 6 / 7 : Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (RHSA-2017:3123)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 104457

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2017:3123 advisory.

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is a platform for Java applications based on the JBoss Application Server.

This asynchronous patch is a security update for lucene package in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0.8.

Security Fix(es):

* It was found that Apache Lucene would accept an object from an unauthenticated user that could be manipulated through subsequent post requests. An attacker could use this flaw to assemble an object that could permit execution of arbitrary code if the server enabled Apache Solr's Config API. (CVE-2017-12629)

For more information regarding CVE-2017-12629, see the article linked in 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 Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform package based on the guidance in RHSA-2017:3123.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 104457

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2017-3123.nasl

Version: 3.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 11/8/2017

Updated: 4/29/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-12629

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-lucene-analyzers-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-lucene-queries, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-lucene-facet, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-lucene-misc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-lucene-core, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-lucene-queryparser, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-lucene-solr, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-lucene-backward-codecs

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: 11/6/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/14/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-12629

CWE: 138

IAVA: 2021-A-0392-S

RHSA: 2017:3123

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