CVE-2019-3805

MEDIUM

Wildfly <16.0.0.Final - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (8)

Core 8
Core References
Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3805
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1107
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1108
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1106
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1140
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190517-0004/
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2413
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0727

Scores

CVSS v3 4.7
EPSS 0.0008
EPSS Percentile 22.7%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-269 CWE-364
Status published
Products (3)
redhat/jboss_enterprise_application_platform 6.0.0
redhat/jboss_enterprise_application_platform 7.0.0
redhat/wildfly < 16.0.0
Published May 03, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026