Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Wildfly Core - CVE-2019-14838

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Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Wildfly Core - CVE-2019-14838

Published: November 27, 2019


Vulnerability identifier: #VU23014
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-14838
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote user to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to wildfly-core allows unnecessary write permissions for management users with Monitor, Auditor and Deployer roles. A remote authenticated user can modify server runtime state and escalate privileges within the application.


Affected software

Wildfly Core
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Red Hat Single Sign-On
JBoss Data Grid

How to mitigate CVE-2019-14838

Install updates from vendor's website.

Wildfly Core - update to 10.0.2
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform - addressed in versions 7.2.4, 7.2.5
Red Hat Single Sign-On - update to 7.3.5
JBoss Data Grid - update to 7.3.4

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