CVE-2015-0225

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2015-04-01
CWE:
CWE-306
Bugzilla:
1208181: CVE-2015-0225 Cassandra: remote code execution via unauthenticated JMX/RMI interface
It was found that Apache Cassandra bound an unauthenticated JMX/RMI interface to all network interfaces. A remote attacker able to access the RMI, an API for the transport and remote execution of serialized Java, could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code as the user running Cassandra.

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CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 7.5
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
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 Operations Network 3.3 RHSA-2015:1947 2015-10-28

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat JBoss Operations Network 2 Cassandra Affected

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