CVE-2012-2672

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2012-06-01
Bugzilla:
829560: CVE-2012-2672 Mojarra: deployed web applications can read FacesContext from other applications under certain conditions

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Oracle Mojarra 2.1.7 does not properly "clean up" the FacesContext reference during startup, which allows local users to obtain context information an access resources from another WAR file by calling the FacesContext.getCurrentInstance function.

Find out more about CVE-2012-2672 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 1.9
Base Metrics AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact None

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.0 RHSA-2012:1594 2012-12-18
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 for RHEL 6 Server RHSA-2012:1592 2012-12-18
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 for RHEL 5 Server RHSA-2012:1591 2012-12-18

Acknowledgements

This issue was discovered by Marek Schmidt and Stan Silvert of Red Hat.

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