Bug 1101619 (CVE-2014-0248)

Summary:	CVE-2014-0248 JBoss Seam: RCE via unsafe logging in AuthenticationFilter
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Arun Babu Neelicattu <aneelica>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	unspecified	CC:	aileenc, alazarot, asantos, aszczucz, bdawidow, brms-jira, cdewolf, chazlett, dandread, darran.lofthouse, epp-bugs, etirelli, fnasser, grocha, gvarsami, hfnukal, huwang, jason.greene, jawilson, jboss-set, jbpapp-maint, jcoleman, joallen, jpallich, jrusnack, kconner, kejohnso, krathod, ldimaggi, lgao, lpetrovi, mbaluch, mjc, mnovotny, mweiler, mwinkler, myarboro, nwallace, pavelp, pgier, pmuir, pslavice, rhq-maint, rrajasek, rsvoboda, rwagner, rzhang, security-response-team, soa-p-jira, spinder, tcunning, theute, tkirby, twalsh, vtunka, weli
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Security
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Doc Text:	It was found that the org.jboss.seam.web.AuthenticationFilter class implementation did not properly use Seam logging. A remote attacker could send specially crafted authentication headers to an application, which could result in arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user running that application.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2016-03-10 21:30:06 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	1101741, 1101742, 1101743, 1101744, 1101745, 1101746, 1101747, 1101748, 1101749, 1101750, 1101752, 1101753, 1101754, 1101755, 1101785, 1101786, 1101787, 1101788, 1101789, 1101790, 1101791, 1101792, 1102383, 1102384
Bug Blocks:	1101620, 1103918, 1103922, 1108737, 1109835, 1112044, 1244362, 1244363

Description Arun Babu Neelicattu 2014-05-27 15:40:54 UTC

It was found that org.jboss.seam.web.AuthenticationFilter class implementation used seam logging in an unsafe manner. A remote attacker could exploit this issue in order to gain arbitrary code execution by providing specifically crafted authentication headers.

Comment 7 Arun Babu Neelicattu 2014-06-23 13:57:09 UTC

Acknowledgements:

This issue was discovered by Marek Schmidt of Red Hat.

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2014-06-23 18:02:38 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Web Framework Kit 2.5.0

Via RHSA-2014:0785 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0785.html

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2014-06-25 15:51:30 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2.0 

Via RHSA-2014:0794 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0794.html

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2014-06-25 15:52:10 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  JBoss Enterprise Web Platform 5.2.0

Via RHSA-2014:0791 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0791.html

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2014-06-25 16:02:28 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  JBEAP 5 for RHEL 5
  JBEAP 5 for RHEL 4
  JBEAP 5 for RHEL 6

Via RHSA-2014:0793 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0793.html

Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2014-06-25 16:02:33 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  JBEWP 5 for RHEL 5
  JBEWP 5 for RHEL 4
  JBEWP 5 for RHEL 6

Via RHSA-2014:0792 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0792.html

Comment 16 errata-xmlrpc 2015-10-12 15:28:07 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss SOA Platform 5.3.1

Via RHSA-2015:1888 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1888.html