Red Hat Enterprise Application Platform 5.2 JBoss Application Server doFilter deserialization

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Red Hat Enterprise Application Platform 5.2 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is the function doFilter of the component JBoss Application Server. Executing a manipulation can lead to deserialization. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2017-12149. The attack can be launched remotely. Moreover, an exploit is present. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability has been found in Red Hat Enterprise Application Platform 5.2 and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects the function doFilter of the component JBoss Application Server. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a deserialization vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-502. The product deserializes untrusted data without sufficiently verifying that the resulting data will be valid. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

In Jboss Application Server as shipped with RedHat Enterprise Application Platform 5.2, it was found that the doFilter method in the ReadOnlyAccessFilter of the HTTP Invoker does not restrict classes for which it performs deserialization and thus allowing an attacker to execute arbitrary code via crafted serialized data.

The bug was discovered 08/29/2017. The weakness was disclosed 10/04/2017 as Bug 1486220 as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). The advisory is available at bugzilla.redhat.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2017-12149 since 08/01/2017. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. Technical details and also a public exploit are known.

It is possible to download the exploit at packetstormsecurity.com. It is declared as attacked. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 36 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 109990 (RHEL 6 : JBoss EAP (RHSA-2018:1607)), 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 236795 (Red Hat Update for JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2 (RHSA-2018:1607)). This issue was added on 12/10/2021 to the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog with a due date of 06/10/2022:

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Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 9 months after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (109990) and SecurityFocus (BID 100591†). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Class: Deserialization
CWE: CWE-502 / CWE-20
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Nessus ID: 109990
Nessus Name: RHEL 6 : JBoss EAP (RHSA-2018:1607)
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MetaSploit ID: jboss_vulnscan.rb
MetaSploit Name: JBoss Vulnerability Scanner
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Recommended: Upgrade
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10/04/2017 +35 days 🔍
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Vendor: redhat.com

Advisory: Bug 1486220
Researcher: Joao F M Figueiredo
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2017-12149 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2017-12149
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-107482
SecurityFocus: 100591

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013

Entryinfo

Created: 10/05/2017 15:17
Updated: 09/09/2024 22:29
Changes: 10/05/2017 15:17 (68), 12/01/2019 08:10 (11), 01/15/2021 14:24 (4), 04/22/2024 10:16 (25), 07/24/2024 21:16 (1), 09/01/2024 18:17 (2), 09/09/2024 22:29 (1)
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Cache ID: 216:DB5:103

Discussion

 DLIC (+1)
8 years ago
hi, i wonder how to sell this exploit?

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