CVE-2011-1484

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2011-04-20
IAVA:
2011-B-0086
Bugzilla:
692421: CVE-2011-1484 JBoss Seam privilege escalation caused by EL interpolation in FacesMessages

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

jboss-seam.jar in the JBoss Seam 2 framework 2.2.x and earlier, as distributed in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 4.3.0.CP04 and 5.1.0 and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (aka JBoss EAP or JBEAP) 4.3.0.CP09 and 5.1.0, does not properly restrict use of Expression Language (EL) statements in FacesMessages during page exception handling, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary Java code via a crafted URL to an application.

Find out more about CVE-2011-1484 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 6.8
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat JBoss Portal 4.3 RHSA-2012:0091 2012-02-02
Red Hat JBoss SOA Platform 5.0 RHSA-2011:0463 2011-04-20
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 for RHEL 5 Server (jboss-seam2) RHSA-2011:0461 2011-04-20
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 for RHEL 4 AS (jboss-seam2) RHSA-2011:0461 2011-04-20
JBoss Communications Platform 5.1 RHSA-2011:1148 2011-08-10
Red Hat JBoss Portal 5 RHSA-2011:1251 2011-09-05
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 4.3.0 for RHEL 5 Server (jboss-seam2) RHSA-2011:0460 2011-04-20
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.1 RHSA-2011:0462 2011-04-20
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 4.3.0 for RHEL 4 AS (jboss-seam2) RHSA-2011:0460 2011-04-20
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 4.3 RHSA-2011:0462 2011-04-20
Red Hat JBoss SOA Platform 4.3 RHSA-2011:0463 2011-04-20

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank Martin Kouba from IT SYSTEMS a.s. for reporting this issue.

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