RHSA-2014:1170

Vulnerability from csaf_redhat - Published: 2014-09-10 05:33 - Updated: 2026-03-18 01:35
Summary
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat JBoss Fuse/A-MQ 6.1.0 security update
Severity
Important
Notes
Topic: This advisory contains instructions on how to resolve one security issue in the Elasticsearch component in Red Hat JBoss Fuse and A-MQ 6.1.0. Red Hat Product Security has rated this security issue as having Important 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.
Details: Red Hat JBoss Fuse, based on Apache ServiceMix, provides a small-footprint, flexible, open source enterprise service bus and integration platform. Red Hat JBoss A-MQ, based on Apache ActiveMQ, is a standards-compliant messaging system that is tailored for use in mission critical applications. Red Hat JBoss Fuse and A-MQ include the insight plug-in, which provides insight into a Fuse Fabric using Elasticsearch to query data for logs, metrics or historic Camel messages. This plug-in is not enabled by default, and is provided as a technology preview. If it is enabled by installing the feature, for example: JBossFuse:karaf@root> features:install insight-elasticsearch Then an Elasticsearch server will be started. It was discovered that the default configuration of Elasticsearch enabled dynamic scripting, allowing a remote attacker to execute arbitrary MVEL expressions and Java code via the source parameter passed to _search. (CVE-2014-3120) All users of Red Hat JBoss Fuse and A-MQ 6.1.0 as provided from the Red Hat Customer Portal who have enabled Elasticsearch are advised to follow the instructions provided in the Solution section of this advisory.
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CVE-2014-3120

It was discovered that the default configuration of Elasticsearch enabled dynamic scripting, allowing a remote attacker to execute arbitrary MVEL expressions and Java code via the source parameter passed to _search.

6.8 ()
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CWE-749 - Exposed Dangerous Method or Function
Affected products
Product Identifier Version Remediation
Red Hat JBoss A-MQ 6.1
Red Hat / Red Hat JBoss Fuse
 cpe:/a:redhat:jboss_amq:6.1.0 —
Vendor Fix fix
Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6.1
Red Hat / Red Hat JBoss Fuse
 cpe:/a:redhat:jboss_fuse:6.1.0 —
Vendor Fix fix
Threats
Exploit Status CISA: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
Impact Important
References
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