CVE-2017-12189

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2018-01-03
Bugzilla:
1499631: CVE-2017-12189 jboss: unsafe chown of server.log in jboss init script allows privilege escalation (Incomplete fix for CVE-2016-8656)
It was discovered that the jboss init script performed unsafe file handling which could result in local privilege escalation.

Find out more about CVE-2017-12189 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v3 metrics

CVSS3 Base Score 7
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity High
Privileges Required Low
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity Impact High
Availability Impact High

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0 for RHEL 7 Server RHSA-2018:0004 2018-01-03
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0 for RHEL 7 Server (eap7-jboss-ec2-eap) RHSA-2018:0005 2018-01-03
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0 for RHEL 6 Server (eap7-jboss-ec2-eap) RHSA-2018:0005 2018-01-03
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0 for RHEL 6 Server RHSA-2018:0002 2018-01-03
Red Hat JBoss EAP 7 RHSA-2018:0003 2018-01-03

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