{ "document": { "aggregate_severity": { "namespace": "https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/", "text": "Important" }, "category": "csaf_security_advisory", "csaf_version": "2.0", "distribution": { "text": "Copyright © Red Hat, Inc. All rights reserved.", "tlp": { "label": "WHITE", "url": "https://www.first.org/tlp/" } }, "lang": "en", "notes": [ { "category": "summary", "text": "An update for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2.0 that\nfixes one security issue is now available from the Red Hat Customer Portal.\n\nThe Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having\nImportant security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS)\nbase score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the\nCVE link in the References section.", "title": "Topic" }, { "category": "general", "text": "Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is a platform for Java\napplications, which integrates the JBoss Application Server with JBoss\nHibernate and JBoss Seam.\n\nIt was found that the org.jboss.seam.web.AuthenticationFilter class\nimplementation did not properly use Seam logging. A remote attacker could\nsend specially crafted authentication headers to an application, which\ncould result in arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user\nrunning that application. (CVE-2014-0248)\n\nThe CVE-2014-0248 issue was discovered by Marek Schmidt of Red Hat.\n\nAll users of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2.0 as\nprovided from the Red Hat Customer Portal are advised to apply this update.\nThe JBoss server process must be restarted for this update to take effect.", "title": "Details" }, { "category": "legal_disclaimer", "text": "This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original.", "title": "Terms of Use" } ], "publisher": { "category": "vendor", "contact_details": "https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/", "issuing_authority": "Red Hat Product Security is responsible for vulnerability handling across all Red Hat products and services.", "name": "Red Hat Product Security", "namespace": "https://www.redhat.com" }, "references": [ { "category": "self", "summary": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:0794", "url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:0794" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important", "url": "https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "https://access.redhat.com/jbossnetwork/restricted/listSoftware.html?downloadType=securityPatches&product=appplatform&version=5.2.0", "url": "https://access.redhat.com/jbossnetwork/restricted/listSoftware.html?downloadType=securityPatches&product=appplatform&version=5.2.0" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "1101619", "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1101619" }, { "category": "self", "summary": "Canonical URL", "url": "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2014/rhsa-2014_0794.json" } ], "title": "Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2.0 security update", "tracking": { "current_release_date": "2025-11-21T17:48:56+00:00", "generator": { "date": "2025-11-21T17:48:56+00:00", "engine": { "name": "Red Hat SDEngine", "version": "4.6.12" } }, "id": "RHSA-2014:0794", "initial_release_date": "2014-06-25T15:50:45+00:00", "revision_history": [ { "date": "2014-06-25T15:50:45+00:00", "number": "1", "summary": "Initial version" }, { "date": "2019-02-20T12:33:09+00:00", "number": "2", "summary": "Last updated version" }, { "date": "2025-11-21T17:48:56+00:00", "number": "3", "summary": "Last generated version" } ], "status": "final", "version": "3" } }, "product_tree": { "branches": [ { "branches": [ { "branches": [ { "category": "product_name", "name": "Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2", "product": { "name": "Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2", "product_id": "Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2", "product_identification_helper": { "cpe": "cpe:/a:redhat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:5.2.0" } } } ], "category": "product_family", "name": "Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform" } ], "category": "vendor", "name": "Red Hat" } ] }, "vulnerabilities": [ { "acknowledgments": [ { "names": [ "Marek Schmidt" ], "organization": "Red Hat", "summary": "This issue was discovered by Red Hat." } ], "cve": "CVE-2014-0248", "cwe": { "id": "CWE-94", "name": "Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')" }, "discovery_date": "2014-05-27T00:00:00+00:00", "ids": [ { "system_name": "Red Hat Bugzilla ID", "text": "1101619" } ], "notes": [ { "category": "description", "text": "It was found that the org.jboss.seam.web.AuthenticationFilter class implementation did not properly use Seam logging. A remote attacker could send specially crafted authentication headers to an application, which could result in arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user running that application.", "title": "Vulnerability description" }, { "category": "summary", "text": "Seam: RCE via unsafe logging in AuthenticationFilter", "title": "Vulnerability summary" }, { "category": "general", "text": "The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.", "title": "CVSS score applicability" } ], "product_status": { "fixed": [ "Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2" ] }, "references": [ { "category": "self", "summary": "Canonical URL", "url": "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-0248" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "RHBZ#1101619", "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1101619" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-0248", "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-0248" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-0248", "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-0248" } ], "release_date": "2014-06-23T00:00:00+00:00", "remediations": [ { "category": "vendor_fix", "date": "2014-06-25T15:50:45+00:00", "details": "The References section of this erratum contains a download link (you must\nlog in to download the update). Before applying the update, back up your\nexisting JBoss Enterprise Application Platform installation (including all\napplications and configuration files).", "product_ids": [ "Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2" ], "restart_required": { "category": "none" }, "url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:0794" } ], "scores": [ { "cvss_v2": { "accessComplexity": "MEDIUM", "accessVector": "NETWORK", "authentication": "NONE", "availabilityImpact": "PARTIAL", "baseScore": 6.8, "confidentialityImpact": "PARTIAL", "integrityImpact": "PARTIAL", "vectorString": "AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P", "version": "2.0" }, "products": [ "Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2" ] } ], "threats": [ { "category": "impact", "details": "Important" } ], "title": "Seam: RCE via unsafe logging in AuthenticationFilter" } ] }