PT-2018-5380 · Red Hat · Red Hat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform

Published 2018-01-10 · Updated 2019-10-09 · CVE-2017-12189

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform version 7.0.7.GA

Description The issue is related to unsafe file handling in the jboss init script, which could lead to local privilege escalation. This problem arose from an incomplete fix for a previous issue.

Recommendations For Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform version 7.0.7.GA, consider restricting access to the jboss init script to minimize the risk of exploitation. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Fix

LPE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-282

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-12189

RHSA-2018:0002

RHSA-2018:0004

RHSA-2018:0005

Affected Products

Red Hat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform

References · 8

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-12189 · Vendor Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0003 · Vendor Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0004 · Vendor Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0002 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12189 · Security Note
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0005 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-12189 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/102407 · Note