Bug 843335 (CVE-2012-3427)

Summary:	CVE-2012-3427 JBoss EAP 5 AMI: insecure default file permissions for /var/cache/jboss-ec2-eap
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	David Jorm <djorm>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	jlieskov, mjc, pcheung, security-response-team
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Description David Jorm 2012-07-26 04:31:51 UTC

On the JBoss EAP 5 EC2 AMI, the /var/cache/jboss-ec2-eap directory has default permissions of 755. A local attacker could exploit these insecure permissions to read potentially sensitive information from this directory, such as AWS credentials.

Comment 2 Murray McAllister 2012-10-16 05:53:36 UTC

Acknowledgements:

This issue was discovered by Aleksandar Kostadinov of the Red Hat QE Team.

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2012-10-16 13:23:33 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  JBEAP 5 for RHEL 6

Via RHSA-2012:1376 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1376.html