Bug 1584492 (CVE-2018-12532)

Summary:	CVE-2018-12532 RichFaces: Injection of arbitrary EL variable mapper allows to bypass mitigation of CVE-2015-0279 and thereby remote code execution
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Sam Fowler <sfowler>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Priority:	urgent
Version:	unspecified	CC:	aileenc, alazarot, anstephe, bmaxwell, cdewolf, chazlett, csutherl, darran.lofthouse, dimitris, dosoudil, drieden, etirelli, fgavrilo, gvarsami, ibek, jawilson, jboss-set, jcoleman, jolee, jondruse, jschatte, jstastny, kconner, krathod, kverlaen, ldimaggi, lgao, loleary, lpetrovi, myarboro, nwallace, paradhya, pgier, pjurak, ppalaga, psakar, pslavice, rnetuka, rrajasek, rstancel, rsvoboda, rsynek, rwagner, rzhang, sdaley, spinder, tcunning, theute, tkirby, twalsh, vhalbert, vtunka
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Description Sam Fowler 2018-05-31 04:15:45 UTC

RichFaces version 4.5.3 ≤ 4.5.17 is vulnerable to injection of arbitrary EL variable mappers, allowing mitigation bypass of CVE-2015-0279 and thereby remote code execution.


External Reference:

https://codewhitesec.blogspot.com/2018/05/poor-richfaces.html

Comment 1 Sam Fowler 2018-05-31 04:29:33 UTC

Upstream issue:

https://issues.jboss.org/browse/RF-14309

Comment 5 Chess Hazlett 2018-05-31 17:14:32 UTC

Statement:

This issue does not affect the following Red Hat products, as they do not include the vulnerable version of the RichFaces component:
Red Hat JBoss EAP 5.2
Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6.4
Red Hat JBoss BRMS 5.3
Red Hat JBoss Operations Network 3.3