CVE-2013-0248

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2013-03-06
CWE:
CWE-552
Bugzilla:
922146: CVE-2013-0248 jakarta-commons-fileupload, apache-commons-fileupload: /tmp directory used by default for uploaded files (possibility to overwrite arbitrary files)

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The default configuration of javax.servlet.context.tempdir in Apache Commons FileUpload 1.0 through 1.2.2 uses the /tmp directory for uploaded files, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via an unspecified symlink attack.

Find out more about CVE-2013-0248 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Red Hat Satellite Server 5 are now in Production 3 and Production 2 Phases of the support and maintenance life cycle respectively. This has been rated as having Low security impact and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/ and the Red Hat Satellite and Proxy Server Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/satellite.

Red Hat JBoss BRMS 5; Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 4 and 5; Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 5; Red Hat JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 4 and 5; and Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 1 are now in Phase 3, Extended Life Support, of their respective life cycles. This issue has been rated as having Low security impact and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat JBoss Middleware and Red Hat JBoss Operations Network Product Update and Support Policy: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/jboss_notes/.

This issue affects the versions of commons-fileupload as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager 3 and Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Low security impact. A future update to these products may address this issue. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 2.1
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity High
Authentication Single
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux thermostat1-apache-commons-fileupload Not affected
Red Hat Satellite 5 jakarta-commons-fileupload Will not fix
Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2 jenkins Not affected
Red Hat JBoss Portal Platform 4 commons-fileupload Will not fix
Red Hat JBoss Portal 5 commons-fileupload Will not fix
Red Hat JBoss Operations Network 3 commons-fileupload Not affected
Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 commons-fileupload Fix deferred
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 5 commons-fileupload Will not fix
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 4.3 commons-fileupload Will not fix
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 4.2 commons-fileupload Will not fix
Red Hat JBoss EWS 1 jakarta-commons-fileupload Will not fix
Red Hat JBoss EWS 1 commons-fileupload Will not fix
Red Hat JBoss EAP 5 commons-fileupload Will not fix
Red Hat JBoss EAP 4 commons-fileupload Will not fix
Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6 commons-fileupload Not affected
Red Hat JBoss BRMS 5 commons-fileupload Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 jakarta-commons-fileupload Will not fix
RHEV Manager 3 jasperreports-server-pro Fix deferred

Mitigation

By default, the system wide temporary directory is configured as the repository to use when uploading files. Setting the repository to another location will mitigate this vulnerability.

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