It was found that GZIPInterceptor is enabled when not necessarily required in RESTEasy. An attacker could use this flaw to launch a Denial of Service attack.
Find out more about CVE-2016-6346 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
This issue was fixed in EAP 7.1.0, but was not fixed in 7.0.7
| Base Score | 5 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
| Access Vector | Network |
| Access Complexity | Low |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | None |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | Partial |
| CVSS3 Base Score | 7.5 |
|---|---|
| CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| Attack Vector | Network |
| Attack Complexity | Low |
| Privileges Required | None |
| User Interaction | None |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | None |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | High |
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| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0 for RHEL 7 Server | RHSA-2018:0004 | 2018-01-03 |
| Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 for RHEL 5 Server (resteasy) | RHSA-2017:0826 | 2017-03-22 |
| Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0 for RHEL 6 Server | RHSA-2018:0002 | 2018-01-03 |
| Red Hat JBoss EAP 7 | RHSA-2018:0003 | 2018-01-03 |
| Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0 for RHEL 7 Server (eap7-jboss-ec2-eap) | RHSA-2018:0005 | 2018-01-03 |
| Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0 for RHEL 6 Server (eap7-jboss-ec2-eap) | RHSA-2018:0005 | 2018-01-03 |
| Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 | RHSA-2017:0517 | 2017-03-14 |
| Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6.4 | RHSA-2017:1676 | 2017-07-04 |
| Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 for RHEL 6 Server (jboss-ec2-eap) | RHSA-2017:0829 | 2017-03-22 |
| Red Hat JBoss BPMS 6.4 | RHSA-2017:1675 | 2017-07-04 |
| Red Hat JBoss BRMS 7.0 | RHSA-2018:2143 | 2018-07-05 |
| Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.3 for RHEL 7 Server (resteasy) | RHSA-2017:0828 | 2017-03-22 |
| Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 for RHEL 6 Server (resteasy) | RHSA-2017:0827 | 2017-03-22 |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1 | katello | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Single Sign-On 7 | Core | Not affected |
| Red Hat Satellite 6 | Security | Will not fix |
| Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes 1.0 | swarm | Not affected |
| Red Hat JBoss Portal Platform 6 | Requirements | Not affected |
| Red Hat JBoss Operations Network 3 | REST | Will not fix |
| Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 | RESTEasy | Will not fix |
| Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 | SwitchYard | Will not fix |
| Red Hat JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 5 | Security | Will not fix |
| Red Hat JBoss EAP 5 | jbossas | Will not fix |
| Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 | RESTEasy | Not affected |
| Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 7 | resteasy | Will not fix |
| Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6 | Build | Not affected |
| Red Hat JBoss BRMS 5 | Security | Will not fix |
| RHEV Manager 3 | vdsm-jsonrpc-java | Will not fix |
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