How to disable the Pooled Invoker in JBoss EAP 4.x/5.x

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Environment

  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP)
    • 5.x

Issue

  • How do we prevent the deserialization attack described in CVE-2016-3690?

  • We are moving from JBoss EAP 5.1.2. We found that port 4445 was now open and We would like to disable this port.

  • How to disable the Pooled Invoker in JBoss EAP 5.x ?

  • Red Hat have responded to CVE 2016-3690 with advice to remove the pooled invoker mbean. It is noted that this vulnerability also affects JBoss 4 EAP will the same solution be suitable against 4.3 instances?

  • How to disable the Legacy Invoker Servlet in JBoss EAP 5.x?

Resolution

Open $JBOSS_HOME/server/$PROFILE/deploy/legacy-invokers-service.xml and remove the PooledInvoker MBean which will disable port 4445.

   <mbean code="org.jboss.invocation.pooled.server.PooledInvoker"
   ...
   </mbean>

Diagnostic Steps

This netstat command will show if the port 4445 is listening or not:

netstat -anp | grep :4445

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