Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform resource consumption
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A vulnerability has been found in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (Application Server Software) (unknown version) and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource consumption vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-400. The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources. As an impact it is known to affect availability.
The bug was discovered 01/18/2017. The weakness was published 01/18/2017 with Red Hat as confirmed security advisory (Website). The advisory is shared for download at rhn.redhat.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2016-8627 since 10/12/2016. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1499.
The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 105252 (RHEL 6 / 7 : eap7-jboss-ec2-eap (RHSA-2017:3458)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Red Hat Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 236580 (Red Hat Update for JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1.0 (RHSA-2017:3455)).
Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. A possible mitigation has been published 12 months after the disclosure of the vulnerability.
The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (105252). Similar entries are available at 92173, 92175, 92322 and 105645.
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CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
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Class: Resource consumptionCWE: CWE-400 / CWE-404
ATT&CK: T1499
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Remote: Yes
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Nessus ID: 105252
Nessus Name: RHEL 6 / 7 : eap7-jboss-ec2-eap (RHSA-2017:3458)
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Sources
Vendor: redhat.comAdvisory: RHSA-2017:3458
Organization: Red Hat
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2016-8627 (🔍)
SecurityTracker: 1037660
SecurityFocus: 95698 - Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform CVE-2016-8627 Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
OSVDB: - CVE-2016-8627 - admin-cli - Cross-Origin Attack Issue
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Entry
Created: 01/23/2017 16:37Updated: 11/03/2022 08:39
Changes: 01/23/2017 16:37 (74), 07/30/2020 10:40 (6), 11/03/2022 08:35 (4), 11/03/2022 08:37 (13), 11/03/2022 08:38 (1), 11/03/2022 08:39 (1)
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