CVE-2014-8120

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2014-12-16
CWE:
CWE-200
Bugzilla:
1168977: CVE-2014-8120 thermostat: local JMX URL disclosure
It was discovered that, in certain configurations, the Thermostat agent disclosed JMX management URLs of all local Java virtual machines to any local user. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to escalate their privileges on the system.

Find out more about CVE-2014-8120 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 6.6
Base Metrics AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:N
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Complete
Integrity Impact Complete
Availability Impact None

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (thermostat1-thermostat) RHSA-2014:2000 2014-12-16
Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (thermostat1-thermostat) RHSA-2014:2000 2014-12-16

Acknowledgements

This issue was discovered by Elliott Baron of Red Hat.

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