Issued:

2014-02-24

Updated:

2014-02-24

RHSA-2014:0204 - Low: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.2.1 security update

Synopsis

Low: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.2.1 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Low

Topic

Updated Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.2.1 packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Low security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

Description

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 is a platform for Java applications based on JBoss Application Server 7.

It was found that the security audit functionality, as provided by Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6, 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. (CVE-2014-0058)

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.

Warning: Before applying this update, back up your existing Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform installation and deployed applications.

All users of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.2.1 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 are advised to upgrade to these updated packages. 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.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/11258

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• jboss-as-web-7.3.1-4.Final_redhat_4.1.ep6.el5.src.rpm
• jboss-as-web-7.3.1-4.Final_redhat_4.1.ep6.el5.noarch.rpm
• jboss-as-web-7.3.1-4.Final_redhat_4.1.ep6.el6.src.rpm
• jboss-as-web-7.3.1-4.Final_redhat_4.1.ep6.el6.noarch.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 1063641

CVEs

• CVE-2014-0058

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
• Offline Security Data data is available for integration with other systems. See Offline Security Data API to get started.