SB2019112011 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat JBoss Web Server
Published: November 20, 2019 Updated: June 24, 2022
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 5 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-0199)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists within the HTTP/2 implementation in Apache Tomcat that accepts streams with excessive numbers of SETTINGS frames and also permits clients to keep streams open without reading/writing request/response data. A remote attacker can exhaust all available threads on the server and perform denial of service attack.
2) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-10072)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to incomplete fix for SB2019020812 when processing HTTP/2 requests. A remote attacker can perform denial of service attack by not sending WINDOW_UPDATE messages for the connection window (stream 0).
3) Use of a broken or risky cryptographic algorithm (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-1559)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to decrypt sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to the way an application behaves, when it receives a 0-byte record with invalid padding compared to the record with an invalid MAC, which results in padding oracle. A remote attacker can decrypt data.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability requires that the application is using "non-stitched" ciphersuites and calls SSL_shutdown() twice (first, via a BAD_RECORD_MAC and again via a CLOSE_NOTIFY).4) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-0221)
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data within SSI printenv command, when parsing URI. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
Example:
http://[host]/printenv.shtml?%3Cscript%3Ealert(%27xss%27)%3C/script%3E
5) Side-channel attack (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-5407)
The vulnerability allows a physical attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to due to execution of engine sharing on SMT (e.g.Hyper-Threading) architectures when improper handling of information by the processor. A physical attacker can construct a timing side channel to hijack information from processes that are running in the same core.
Note: the vulnerability has been dubbed as PortSmash microarchitecture bug.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.