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CERT-In Vulnerability Note CIVN-2021-0233
Multiple Vulnerabilities in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform

Original Issue Date:September 20, 2021

Severity Rating: HIGH

Software Affected

  • JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Text-Only Advisories x86_64

Overview

Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform which could be exploited by an attacker to disclose sensitive information and cause Denial of service (DoS) condition on the targeted system.

Description

1. Denial of service Vulnerability ( CVE-2021-3597   )

The vulnerability exists in Undertow due to HTTP2SourceChannel fails to write final frame under some circumstances.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause Denial of service (DoS) attack on the targeted system.

2. Security Bypass Vulnerability ( CVE-2021-3644   )

The vulnerability exists in wildfly core due to improper access restrictions to vault expressions. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by gaining access to management interface can access restricted vault and retrieve items stored in the vault.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to gain unauthorized access to sensitive information on the targeted system.

3. Denial of service Vulnerability ( CVE-2021-3690   )

The vulnerability exists in Undertow due to memory leak when processing incoming PONG messages. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by forcing the application to leak memory by sending awe socket PONG message and perform denial of service attack.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause Denial of service (DoS) condition on the targeted system.

4. Security Bypass Vulnerability ( CVE-2021-28170   )

The vulnerability exists in Eclipse EE4J Jakarta Expression due to ELParserTokenManager module. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a specially-crafted request.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to bypass input validation of EL expressions.

5. Directory traversal Vulnerability ( CVE-2021-29425   )

The vulnerability exists in Apache-commons-IO due to improper input validation by the FileNameUtils.normalize method. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a specially-crafted URL request containing "dot dot" sequences (/../).
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to traverse directories on the system.

Solution

Apply appropriate fix/patches as mentioned in the following link
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3516

Vendor Information

Redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3516

References

Redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3516

CVE Name
CVE-2021-3597
CVE-2021-3644
CVE-2021-3690
CVE-2021-28170
CVE-2021-29425

Disclaimer

The information provided herein is on "as is" basis, without warranty of any kind.

Contact Information

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Phone: +91-11-24368572

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Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
Government of India
Electronics Niketan
6, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road,
New Delhi - 110 003
India

 
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