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Red Hat JBoss EAP: Unspecified Security Vulnerability (CVE-2017-12189)

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Red Hat JBoss EAP: Unspecified Security Vulnerability (CVE-2017-12189)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/10/2018
Created
11/23/2019
Added
11/14/2019
Modified
11/20/2019

Description

It was discovered that the jboss init script as used in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0.7.GA performed unsafe file handling which could result in local privilege escalation. This issue is a result of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-8656.

Solution(s)

  • red-hat-jboss-eap-upgrade-7_0_9

References

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