SB2018021408 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat JBoss Data Grid
Published: February 14, 2018
Security Bulletin ID
SB2018021408
Severity
High
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
3
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Code execution
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 3 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2014-9970)
The vulnerability allows a local attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.The weakness exists due to a flaw in the Jasypt component. A local attacker can conduct a timing attack on password hash comparison and obtain passwords on the target system.
2) Deserialization of untrusted data (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15089)
The vulnerability allows a remote authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary data on the target system.The weakness exists due to unsafely read deserialized data on information from the cache. A remote attacker can inject specially-crafted serialized objects into data cache and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in system compromise.
3) Deserialization of untrusted data (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-7525)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.The weakness exists due to a deserialization flaw in the jackson-databind component. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted input to the readValue method of the ObjectMapper and execute arbitrary code with privileges of the target service.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in system compromise.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.