CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2014-3530

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Published: Jul 22, 2014 | Modified: Feb 13, 2023
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
7.5 IMPORTANT
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

The org.picketlink.common.util.DocumentUtil.getDocumentBuilderFactory method in PicketLink, as used in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (JBEAP) 5.2.0 and 6.2.4, expands entity references, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary code and possibly have other unspecified impact via unspecified vectors, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.

Weakness

The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Jboss_enterprise_application_platform Redhat 5.2.0 (including) 5.2.0 (including)
Jboss_enterprise_application_platform Redhat 6.2.4 (including) 6.2.4 (including)
JBEWP 5 for RHEL 5 RedHat picketlink-federation-0:2.1.5-3_patch_01.ep5.el5 *
JBEWP 5 for RHEL 6 RedHat picketlink-federation-0:2.1.5-3_patch_01.el6_5 *
Red Hat JBoss BPMS 6.0 RedHat picketlink *
Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6.0 RedHat picketlink *
Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6.4 RedHat picketlink *
Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6.0 RedHat picketlink *
Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6.1 RedHat *
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2 RedHat *
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 for RHEL 4 RedHat picketlink-federation-0:2.1.5-3_patch_01.ep5.el4 *
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 for RHEL 5 RedHat picketlink-federation-0:2.1.5-3_patch_01.ep5.el5 *
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 for RHEL 6 RedHat picketlink-federation-0:2.1.5-3_patch_01.el6_5 *
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.2 RedHat picketlink *
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.2 for RHEL 5 RedHat picketlink-federation-0:2.1.9-5.SP3_redhat_2.1.ep6.el5 *
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.2 for RHEL 6 RedHat picketlink-federation-0:2.1.9-5.SP3_redhat_2.1.ep6.el6 *
Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6.0 RedHat picketlink *
Red Hat JBoss Operations Network 3.2 RedHat *
Red Hat JBoss Portal 6.2 RedHat picketlink *
Red Hat JBoss SOA Platform 5.3 RedHat picketlink *
Red Hat JBoss Web Platform 5.2 RedHat *

Extended Description

There are many different kinds of mistakes that introduce information exposures. The severity of the error can range widely, depending on the context in which the product operates, the type of sensitive information that is revealed, and the benefits it may provide to an attacker. Some kinds of sensitive information include:

Information might be sensitive to different parties, each of which may have their own expectations for whether the information should be protected. These parties include:

Information exposures can occur in different ways:

It is common practice to describe any loss of confidentiality as an “information exposure,” but this can lead to overuse of CWE-200 in CWE mapping. From the CWE perspective, loss of confidentiality is a technical impact that can arise from dozens of different weaknesses, such as insecure file permissions or out-of-bounds read. CWE-200 and its lower-level descendants are intended to cover the mistakes that occur in behaviors that explicitly manage, store, transfer, or cleanse sensitive information.

Potential Mitigations

  • Compartmentalize the system to have “safe” areas where trust boundaries can be unambiguously drawn. Do not allow sensitive data to go outside of the trust boundary and always be careful when interfacing with a compartment outside of the safe area.
  • Ensure that appropriate compartmentalization is built into the system design, and the compartmentalization allows for and reinforces privilege separation functionality. Architects and designers should rely on the principle of least privilege to decide the appropriate time to use privileges and the time to drop privileges.

References