CVE-2016-8627 Denial of service in admin-cli

What is CVE-2016-8627?

CVE-2016-8627 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Redhat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform, published on 11 May 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

admin-cli before versions 3.0.0.alpha25, 2.2.1.cr2 is vulnerable to an EAP feature to download server log files that allows logs to be available via GET requests making them vulnerable to cross-origin attacks. An attacker could trigger the user's browser to request the log files consuming enough resources that normal server functioning could be impaired.

Weakness: CWE-400

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-8627?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Redhat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform, Redhat Keycloak.

How do I fix CVE-2016-8627?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2016-8627 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-8627 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Redhat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform

• CVE-2017-12149 Red Hat JBoss Application Server Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2010-1428 Red Hat JBoss Information Disclosure Exploited Medium 5.9
• CVE-2010-0738 Red Hat JBoss Authentication Bypass Exploited Low 3.7
• CVE-2016-3690 Deserialization in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-7504 Deserialization in JBoss Critical 9.8

All Redhat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-wmq3-659r-46hg.