Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in JBoss Enterprise Application Platform - CVE-2012-3427
Published: February 2, 2014 / Updated: August 10, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU42083
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2012-3427
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
EC2 Amazon Machine Image (AMI) in JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 5.1.2 uses 755 permissions for /var/cache/jboss-ec2-eap/, which allows local users to read sensitive information such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) credentials by reading files in the directory.
Affected software
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
How to mitigate CVE-2012-3427
Install update from vendor's website.