SB2023080816 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 9 



SB2023080816 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 9

Published: August 8, 2023

Security Bulletin ID SB2023080816
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 3
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 3 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Deserialization of Untrusted Data (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-46877)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insecure input validation when processing serialized JsonNode values. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Note, the vulnerability affects JDK serialization only.


2) Uncontrolled Recursion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-1436)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to uncontrolled recursion when constructing a JSONArray from a Collection that contains a self-reference in one of its elements. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


3) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-3223)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to improper management of internal resources by servlets annotated with @MultipartConfig. A remote attacker can send a large multipart content to the server, consume all available memory resources and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.