CVE-2016-9585

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2016-12-14
Bugzilla:
1404528: CVE-2016-9585 EAP-5: unsafe deserialization of user credentials by the JMX endpoint
It was found that the JMX endpoint of Red Hat JBoss EAP 5 deserializes the credentials passed to it. An attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of service.

Find out more about CVE-2016-9585 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

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

Base Score 2.6
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity High
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial

CVSS v3 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS3 Base Score 5.3
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity High
Privileges Required None
User Interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact High

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 5 jbossas Will not fix
Red Hat JBoss EAP 5 jbossas Will not fix

Acknowledgements

This issue was discovered by Jason Shepherd (Red Hat).

Mitigation

You should not expose Remote JMX on EAP 5, or SOA-P 5. To do that remove this system property from bin/run.conf, or bin/run.conf.bat:

   com.sun.management.jmxremote.port=<portNum>

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