CVE-2019-3805 Privilege escalation in wildfly
Local attackers can escalate privileges to root and terminate arbitrary processes by modifying the PID file used by the init.d script.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2019-3805?
CVE-2019-3805 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Redhat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform, published on 3 May 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
A flaw was discovered in wildfly versions up to 16.0.0.Final that would allow local users who are able to execute init.d script to terminate arbitrary processes on the system. An attacker could exploit this by modifying the PID file in /var/run/jboss-eap/ allowing the init.d script to terminate any process as root.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-3805?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Redhat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform, Redhat Wildfly.
How do I fix CVE-2019-3805?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Is CVE-2019-3805 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-3805 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
- CVE-2010-1428 Red Hat JBoss Information Disclosure
- CVE-2010-0738 Red Hat JBoss Authentication Bypass
- CVE-2016-3690 Deserialization in n/a
- CVE-2017-7504 Deserialization in JBoss
All Redhat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform vulnerabilities
Sources
Also known as GHSA-p2vr-qm33-hrfc.