RHSA-2018:0501

Vulnerability from csaf_redhat - Published: 2018-03-13 14:45 - Updated: 2026-05-14 18:21
Summary
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.2.1 security update
Severity
Moderate
Notes
Topic: Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.2.1 is now available for download from the Customer Portal. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Details: Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.2 is a standalone server, based on the Keycloak project, that provides authentication and standards-based single sign-on capabilities for web and mobile applications. This release of Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.2.1 serves as a replacement for Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.2.0, and includes several bug fixes and enhancements. For further information, refer to the Release Notes linked to in the References section. Security Fix(es): * hotrod client: unchecked deserialization in marshaller util (CVE-2016-0750) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Terms of Use: 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.
CVE-2016-0750

The hotrod java client in infinispan automatically deserializes bytearray message contents in certain events. A malicious user could exploit this flaw by injecting a specially-crafted serialized object to attain remote code execution or conduct other attacks.

4.2 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE-138 - Improper Neutralization of Special Elements
Affected products
Product Identifier Version Remediation
Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.2.1 zip
Red Hat / Red Hat Single Sign-On
 cpe:/a:redhat:jboss_single_sign_on:7.2 —
Vendor Fix fix
Threats
Impact Moderate
CVE-2017-2670

It was found that with non-clean TCP close, Websocket server gets into infinite loop on every IO thread, effectively causing DoS.

7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-835 - Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')
Affected products
Product Identifier Version Remediation
Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.2.1 zip
Red Hat / Red Hat Single Sign-On
 cpe:/a:redhat:jboss_single_sign_on:7.2 —
Vendor Fix fix
Threats
Impact Moderate
CVE-2017-15089

It was found that the Hotrod client in Infinispan would unsafely read deserialized data on information from the cache. An authenticated attacker could inject a malicious object into the data cache and attain deserialization on the client, and possibly conduct further attacks.

8.0 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE-502 - Deserialization of Untrusted Data
Affected products
Product Identifier Version Remediation
Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.2.1 zip
Red Hat / Red Hat Single Sign-On
 cpe:/a:redhat:jboss_single_sign_on:7.2 —
Vendor Fix fix
Threats
Impact Important
CVE-2017-16012

[REJECTED CVE] This CVE has been rejected. This candidate is a duplicate of CVE-2015-9251. Note: All CVE users should reference CVE-2015-9251 instead of this candidate.

6.8 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Affected products
Product Identifier Version Remediation
Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.2.1 zip
Red Hat / Red Hat Single Sign-On
 cpe:/a:redhat:jboss_single_sign_on:7.2 —
Vendor Fix fix
Threats
Impact Moderate
References
Acknowledgments
TrueSec Sebastian Olsson
Gregory Ramsperger Ryan Moak
Semmle/lgtm.com Man Yue Mo
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      "title": "js-jquery: XSS in responses from cross-origin ajax requests"
    }
  ]
}


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Tags
Taxonomy of the tags.




Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

Sightings

Author Source Type Date Other

Nomenclature

  • Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
  • Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
  • Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
  • Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.



Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.