Bug 843335 – CVE-2012-3427 JBoss EAP 5 AMI: insecure default file permissions for /var/cache/jboss-ec2-eap

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Bug 843335 - (CVE-2012-3427) CVE-2012-3427 JBoss EAP 5 AMI: insecure default file permissions for /var/cache/jboss-ec2-eap

Summary:	CVE-2012-3427 JBoss EAP 5 AMI: insecure default file permissions for /var/cac...

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	CVE-2012-3427

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

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Blocks:	843339
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Reported:	2012-07-26 00:31 EDT by David Jorm
Modified:	2014-10-20 20:03 EDT (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2012-10-17 05:29:38 EDT
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2012:1376	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Low: jboss-ec2-eap security update	2012-10-16 13:22:13 EDT

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Description David Jorm 2012-07-26 00:31:51 EDT

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 01:53:36 EDT

Acknowledgements:

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

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2012-10-16 09:23:33 EDT

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

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