Bug 1192140 (CVE-2015-0279)

Summary: CVE-2015-0279 RichFaces: Remote Command Execution via insufficient EL parameter sanitization
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Vasyl Kaigorodov <vkaigoro>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Version: unspecifiedCC: aileenc, asantos, bdawidow, cdewolf, chazlett, dandread, darran.lofthouse, epp-bugs, fnasser, gvarsami, hfnukal, huwang, jason.greene, jawilson, jbpapp-maint, jcoleman, jdg-bugs, jpallich, kconner, kkhan, ldimaggi, lgao, mdshaikh, mgoldman, mnovotny, mpetrov, mweiler, myarboro, nwallace, pavelp, pgier, pslavice, rhq-maint, rsvoboda, rwagner, security-response-team, soa-p-jira, spinder, tcunning, theute, tkirby, ttarrant, twalsh, vtunka
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: RichFaces 4.5.4 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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It was found that the 'do' parameter permitted expression language (EL) injection, which could allow a remote attacker to execute Java methods on an affected server.
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Bug Depends On: 1196771, 1196772, 1196773, 1205373, 1206018    
Bug Blocks: 1192141, 1196328, 1203795    
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Description Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-02-12 16:52:10 UTC 
It was reported [1] that remote attackers can inject EL (Expression Language) via "do" parameter.
This leads to remote Java method execution vulnerability.

[1]: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/RF-13977
Comment 6 Chess Hazlett 2015-03-19 20:26:19 UTC 
Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank Takeshi Terada of Mitsui Bussan Secure Directions, Inc. for reporting this issue.
Comment 8 Chess Hazlett 2015-03-24 14:58:25 UTC 
Created attachment 1005892 [details]
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Comment 9 Tomas Hoger 2015-03-24 19:17:28 UTC 
Created wildfly tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1205373]
Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2015-03-24 21:08:08 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Web Framework Kit 2.7.0

Via RHSA-2015:0719 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0719.html
Comment 12 Tomas Hoger 2015-03-27 07:40:57 UTC 
Upstream commit:

https://github.com/richfaces/richfaces/commit/4c5ddae4d6ddcea591fa949762c1c79ac11cac99
Comment 19 Martin Prpič 2015-04-21 09:37:02 UTC 
Statement:

This issue did not affect any version of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 as they did not include the vulnerable version of the RichFaces component. JBoss EAP 5.x includes versions 3.3.1.x of RichFaces; this vulnerability was introduced in version 4.x of RichFaces.