Bug 1404528 (CVE-2016-9585)

Summary: CVE-2016-9585 EAP-5: unsafe deserialization of user credentials by the JMX endpoint
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Jason Shepherd <jshepherd>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: low Docs Contact:
Priority: low    
Version: unspecifiedCC: aileenc, dandread, fnasser, gvarsami, huwang, jbpapp-maint, jcoleman, kconner, ldimaggi, lgao, myarboro, nwallace, rwagner, soa-p-jira, tcunning, tkirby, twalsh
Target Milestone: ---Keywords: Security
Target Release: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version: Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:
It was found that the JMX endpoint of Red Hat JBoss EAP 5 deserializes the credentials passed to it. An attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of service.
Story Points: ---
Clone Of: Environment:
Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:04:25 UTC Type: ---
Regression: --- Mount Type: ---
Documentation: --- CRM:
Verified Versions: Category: ---
oVirt Team: --- RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team: --- Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Description Jason Shepherd 2016-12-14 02:36:49 UTC
If a user exposes Remote JMX on EAP 5, or SOA-P 5 they could be vulnerable to a Denial of Service Attack.

Comment 1 Jason Shepherd 2016-12-14 02:37:07 UTC
Acknowledgments:

Name: Jason Shepherd (Red Hat)

Comment 2 Jason Shepherd 2016-12-14 02:42:58 UTC
Mitigation:

You should not expose Remote JMX on EAP 5, or SOA-P 5. To do that remove this system property from bin/run.conf, or bin/run.conf.bat:

   com.sun.management.jmxremote.port=<portNum>