Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Wildfly - CVE-2019-3805
Published: August 9, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU20035
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-3805
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Red Hat Inc.
Affected software:
Wildfly
Wildfly
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a local user to perform denial of service attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insecure permissions for /var/run/jboss-eap/ file that allows any user with permissions to run init.d scripts to terminate arbitrary process by modifying its PID in /var/run/jboss-eap/.
How to mitigate CVE-2019-3805
Install updates from vendor's website.
Sources
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1106
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1107
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1108
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1140
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3805
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190517-0004/