RHSA-2016:1785 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Operations Network.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Red Hat JBoss Operations Network is a Middleware management solution that
provides a single point of control to deploy, manage, and monitor JBoss
Enterprise Middleware, applications, and services.

This JBoss Operations Network 3.3.7 release serves as a replacement for
JBoss Operations Network 3.3.6, and includes several bug fixes. Refer to
the Customer Portal page linked in the References section for information
on the most significant of these changes.

Security Fix(es):

• It was found that JBoss Operations Network allowed regular users to add a

new super user by sending a specially crafted request to the web console.
This attacks allows escalation of privileges. (CVE-2016-5422)

This issue was discovered by Jeremy Choi (Red Hat Product Security).

Before applying this update, back up your existing JBoss Operations Network
installation (including its databases, applications, configuration files,
the JBoss Operations Network server's file system directory, and so on).

Solution

The References section of this erratum contains a download link (you must
log in to download the update). Before applying this update, back up your
existing JBoss Operations Network installation (including its databases,
applications, configuration files, the JBoss Operations Network server's
file system directory, and so on).

Refer to the JBoss Operations Network 3.3.7 Release Notes for
installation information.

Affected Products

• Red Hat JBoss Middleware Text-Only Advisories for MIDDLEWARE 1 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1301970 - Some secure-socket-protocol properties are not ready for list of protocols
• BZ - 1359002 - Remove unsupported Python scripting module
• BZ - 1361933 - CVE-2016-5422 JON3: privilege escalation via improper authorization

CVEs

• CVE-2016-5422

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/jbossnetwork/restricted/listSoftware.html?product=em&downloadType=securityPatches&version=3.3