ID

VAR-201405-0542

CVE

CVE-2014-0096

TITLE

Apache Tomcat Vulnerability that could bypass the security manager limitation in the default servlet

DESCRIPTION

java/org/apache/catalina/servlets/DefaultServlet.java in the default servlet in Apache Tomcat before 6.0.40, 7.x before 7.0.53, and 8.x before 8.0.4 does not properly restrict XSLT stylesheets, which allows remote attackers to bypass security-manager restrictions and read arbitrary files via a crafted web application that provides an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ===================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Moderate: Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6.3.0 update Advisory ID: RHSA-2014:0895-01 Product: Red Hat JBoss Data Grid Advisory URL: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0895.html Issue date: 2014-07-16 CVE Names: CVE-2014-0058 CVE-2014-0059 CVE-2014-0075 CVE-2014-0096 CVE-2014-0099 CVE-2014-0119 ===================================================================== 1. Summary: Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6.3.0, which fixes multiple security issues, various bugs, and adds enhancements, is now available from the Red Hat Customer Portal. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section. 2. Description: Red Hat JBoss Data Grid is a distributed in-memory data grid, based on Infinispan. This release of Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6.3.0 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6.2.1. It includes various bug fixes and enhancements which are detailed in the Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6.3.0 Release Notes. The Release Notes will be available shortly from https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_JBoss_Data_Grid/ This update also fixes the following security issues: It was discovered that JBoss Web did not limit the length of chunk sizes when using chunked transfer encoding. A remote attacker could use this flaw to perform a denial of service attack against JBoss Web by streaming an unlimited quantity of data, leading to excessive consumption of server resources. (CVE-2014-0075) It was found that JBoss Web did not check for overflowing values when parsing request content length headers. A remote attacker could use this flaw to perform an HTTP request smuggling attack on a JBoss Web server located behind a reverse proxy that processed the content length header correctly. (CVE-2014-0099) It was found that the security audit functionality, provided by Red Hat JBoss Data Grid, logged request parameters in plain text. This may have caused passwords to be included in the audit log files when using BASIC or FORM-based authentication. A local attacker with access to audit log files could possibly use this flaw to obtain application or server authentication credentials. Refer to the Solution section of this advisory for additional information on the fix for this issue. (CVE-2014-0058) It was found that the security auditing functionality provided by PicketBox and JBossSX, both security frameworks for Java applications, used a world-readable audit.log file to record sensitive information. A local user could possibly use this flaw to gain access to the sensitive information in the audit.log file. (CVE-2014-0059) It was found that the org.apache.catalina.servlets.DefaultServlet implementation in JBoss Web allowed the definition of XML External Entities (XXEs) in provided XSLTs. A malicious application could use this to circumvent intended security restrictions to disclose sensitive information. (CVE-2014-0096) It was found that, in certain circumstances, it was possible for a malicious web application to replace the XML parsers used by JBoss Web to process XSLTs for the default servlet, JSP documents, tag library descriptors (TLDs), and tag plug-in configuration files. The injected XML parser(s) could then bypass the limits imposed on XML external entities and/or gain access to the XML files processed for other web applications deployed on the same JBoss Web instance. (CVE-2014-0119) The CVE-2014-0075 issue was discovered by David Jorm of Red Hat Product Security. All users of Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6.2.1 as provided from the Red Hat Customer Portal are advised to upgrade to Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6.3.0. 3. Solution: The References section of this erratum contains a download link (you must log in to download the update). Before applying this update, back up your existing JBoss Data Grid installation. The provided patch to fix CVE-2014-0058 also allows greater control over which of the following components of web requests are captured in audit logs: - - parameters - - cookies - - headers - - attributes It is also possible to selectively mask some elements of headers, parameters, cookies, and attributes using masks. This capability is provided by two system properties, which are introduced by this patch: 1) org.jboss.security.web.audit Description: This property controls the granularity of the security auditing of web requests. Possible values: off = Disables auditing of web requests headers = Audits only the headers of web requests cookies = Audits only the cookies of web requests parameters = Audits only the parameters of web requests attributes = Audits only the attributes of web requests headers,cookies,parameters = Audits the headers, cookies, and parameters of web requests headers,cookies = Audits the headers and cookies of web requests Default Value: headers, parameters Examples: Setting "org.jboss.security.web.audit=off" disables security auditing of web requests entirely. Setting "org.jboss.security.web.audit=headers" enables security auditing of only headers in web requests. 2) org.jboss.security.web.audit.mask Description: This property can be used to specify a list of strings to be matched against headers, parameters, cookies, and attributes of web requests. Any element matching the specified masks will be excluded from security audit logging. Possible values: Any comma separated string indicating keys of headers, parameters, cookies, and attributes. Default Value: j_password, authorization Note that currently the matching of the masks is fuzzy rather than strict. For example, a mask of "authorization" will mask both the header called authorization and the parameter called "custom_authorization". A future release may introduce strict masks. 4. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/): 1063641 - CVE-2014-0058 Red Hat JBoss EAP6: Plain text password logging during security audit 1063642 - CVE-2014-0059 JBossSX/PicketBox: World readable audit.log file 1072776 - CVE-2014-0075 Tomcat/JBossWeb: Limited DoS in chunked transfer encoding input filter 1088342 - CVE-2014-0096 Tomcat/JBossWeb: XXE vulnerability via user supplied XSLTs 1102030 - CVE-2014-0099 Tomcat/JBossWeb: Request smuggling via malicious content length header 1102038 - CVE-2014-0119 Tomcat/JBossWeb: XML parser hijack by malicious web application 5. References: https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2014-0058.html https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2014-0059.html https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2014-0075.html https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2014-0096.html https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2014-0099.html https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2014-0119.html https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/jbossnetwork/restricted/listSoftware.html?product=data.grid&downloadType=distributions https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_JBoss_Data_Grid/ 6. Contact: The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/ Copyright 2014 Red Hat, Inc. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFTxsOWXlSAg2UNWIIRAnvFAJ9oo6SpbAMA5fFfcl87bkcnKma7jQCeOY3U BKYtD4zlGceUuD+E3C1i3vE= =swqj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- RHSA-announce mailing list RHSA-announce@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhsa-announce . The JBoss server process must be restarted for the update to take effect. Solution: Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. Also, back up any customized Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 configuration files. On update, the configuration files that have been locally modified will not be updated. The updated version of such files will be stored as the rpmnew files. Make sure to locate any such files after the update and merge any changes manually. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/#package 7. CVE-2014-0096 Information Disclosure Severity: Important Vendor: The Apache Software Foundation Versions Affected: - Apache Tomcat 8.0.0-RC1 to 8.0.3 - Apache Tomcat 7.0.0 to 7.0.52 - Apache Tomcat 6.0.0 to 6.0.39 Description: The default servlet allows web applications to define (at multiple levels) an XSLT to be used to format a directory listing. When running under a security manager, the processing of these was not subject to the same constraints as the web application. Mitigation: Users of affected versions should apply one of the following mitigations - Upgrade to Apache Tomcat 8.0.5 or later (8.0.4 contains the fix but was not released) - Upgrade to Apache Tomcat 7.0.53 or later - Upgrade to Apache Tomcat 6.0.41 or later (6.0.40 contains the fix but was not released) Credit: This issue was identified by the Tomcat security team. It is comprised of the Apache HTTP Server, the Apache Tomcat Servlet container, Apache Tomcat Connector (mod_jk), JBoss HTTP Connector (mod_cluster), Hibernate, and the Tomcat Native library. Description: Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite is a business rules and processes management system for the management, storage, creation, modification, and deployment of JBoss rules and BPMN2-compliant business processes. It includes various bug fixes, which are listed in the README file included with the patch files. The following security issues are also fixed with this release, descriptions of which can be found on the respective CVE pages linked in the References section. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 201412-29 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - http://security.gentoo.org/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Severity: Normal Title: Apache Tomcat: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: December 15, 2014 Bugs: #442014, #469434, #500600, #511762, #517630, #519590 ID: 201412-29 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Synopsis ======== Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Apache Tomcat, the worst of which may result in Denial of Service. Affected packages ================= ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 www-servers/tomcat < 7.0.56 *>= 6.0.41 >= 7.0.56 Description =========== Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Tomcat. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact ====== A remote attacker may be able to cause a Denial of Service condition as well as obtain sensitive information, bypass protection mechanisms and authentication restrictions. Workaround ========== There is no known workaround at this time. Resolution ========== All Tomcat 6.0.x users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-servers/tomcat-6.0.41" All Tomcat 7.0.x users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-servers/tomcat-7.0.56" References ========== [ 1 ] CVE-2012-2733 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-2733 [ 2 ] CVE-2012-3544 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-3544 [ 3 ] CVE-2012-3546 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-3546 [ 4 ] CVE-2012-4431 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-4431 [ 5 ] CVE-2012-4534 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-4534 [ 6 ] CVE-2012-5885 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-5885 [ 7 ] CVE-2012-5886 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-5886 [ 8 ] CVE-2012-5887 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-5887 [ 9 ] CVE-2013-2067 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-2067 [ 10 ] CVE-2013-2071 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-2071 [ 11 ] CVE-2013-4286 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-4286 [ 12 ] CVE-2013-4322 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-4322 [ 13 ] CVE-2013-4590 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-4590 [ 14 ] CVE-2014-0033 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-0033 [ 15 ] CVE-2014-0050 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-0050 [ 16 ] CVE-2014-0075 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-0075 [ 17 ] CVE-2014-0096 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-0096 [ 18 ] CVE-2014-0099 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-0099 [ 19 ] CVE-2014-0119 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-0119 Availability ============ This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-29.xml Concerns? ========= Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org. License ======= Copyright 2014 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text belongs to its owner(s). The contents of this document are licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5

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remote

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permissions and access control issues

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