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TI-2017-01843 Aliases CVE-2017-2589GHSA-m4j5-hgqq-5jf2

Improper authorization in Red Hat hawtio

Priority MEDIUM 41CWE-285Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
Required
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Security bypass, Information disclosure
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · High · High
Fix status
Partial Red Hat: 2 fixed, 3 without a fix

Attack profile from CVSS 3.0 · NVD. Fix status from CNA, GitHub and Red Hat. Impact type from CWE-285 and CWE-200.

Summary

It was discovered that the hawtio servlet 1.4 uses a single HttpClient instance to proxy requests with a persistent cookie store (cookies are stored locally and are not passed between the client and the end URL) which means all clients using that proxy are sharing the same cookies.

Why it matters now

EPSS 0.00926 60th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Partial io.hawt:project (Maven): 1.5.0Red Hat: 1 advisoryRed Hat: 2 fixed, 3 without a fix

SSVC decision points

Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
Red Hathawtio1.4—No fix listedCNA
—io.hawt:project (Maven)before 1.5.01.5.0Patch availableGHSA-m4j5-hgqq-5jf2
  • hawtio VendorRed Hat Affected 1.4 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
  • io.hawt:project (Maven) Vendor— Affected before 1.5.0 Fixed in 1.5.0 Patch available GHSA-m4j5-hgqq-5jf2

CPE configurations NVD · 2

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:hawt:hawtio:1.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*1.4.0VulnerableHawt
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:jboss_fuse:6.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*6.3VulnerableRed Hat
  • cpe:2.3:a:hawt:hawtio:1.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 1.4.0 Vulnerable ·Hawt
  • cpe:2.3:a:redhat:jboss_fuse:6.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 6.3 Vulnerable ·Red Hat

Remediation

  • Fix · GHSA-m4j5-hgqq-5jf2 io.hawt:project (Maven) Fixed in 1.5.0 Advisory →

Red Hat 1 advisory

  • RHSA-2017:1832 Released 2017-08-10 · Red Hat rating Important
    Red Hat JBoss Fuse/A-MQ 6.3 R4 security and bug fix update
    • Red Hat JBoss A-MQ 6.3
    • Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6.3

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Important. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

ProductStatusPlan or fix
Red Hat JBoss A-MQ 6AffectedNo fix yet
Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6AffectedNo fix yet
Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2Affected—
Red Hat JBoss A-MQ 6.3Fixed RHSA-2017:1832
Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6.3Fixed RHSA-2017:1832

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2017-2589
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-m4j5-hgqq-5jf2

References

Advisory 3

Other 2

  • TI-2023-23979 The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service (server resource consumption) because… KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2015-06239 Red Hat JBoss A-MQ 6.x; BPM Suite (BPMS) 6.x; BRMS 6.x and 5.x; Data Grid (JDG) 6.x; Data… CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2021-02983 Deserialization of untrusted data in JMSAppender in Apache Log4j 1.2 CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2019-11096 Information disclosure in Red Hat jackson-databind CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2019-07493 XML external entity injection in Red Hat jackson-mapper-asl CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2014-00115 The admin terminal in Hawt.io does not require authentication, which allows remote… CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
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