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TI-2019-02817 Aliases CVE-2019-3805GHSA-p2vr-qm33-hrfc

Improper privilege management in Red Hat wildfly

Priority LOW 21CWE-364Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Local
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
High
Impact type
Privilege escalation
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
None · None · High
Fix status
Partial Red Hat: 7 fixed, 4 without a fix

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat. Impact type from CWE-269.

Summary

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.

Why it matters now

EPSS 0.0019 8th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Partial Red Hat: 7 advisoriesRed Hat: 7 fixed, 4 without a fix

SSVC decision points

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

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
Red Hatwildflyaffects up to 16.0.0.Final—No fix listedCNA
  • wildfly VendorRed Hat Affected affects up to 16.0.0.Final Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 3

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:6.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*6.0.0VulnerableRed Hat
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:7.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*7.0.0VulnerableRed Hat
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:wildfly:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*up to 16.0.0VulnerableRed Hat
  • cpe:2.3:a:redhat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:6.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 6.0.0 Vulnerable ·Red Hat
  • cpe:2.3:a:redhat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:7.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 7.0.0 Vulnerable ·Red Hat
  • cpe:2.3:a:redhat:wildfly:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions up to 16.0.0 Vulnerable ·Red Hat

Remediation

Red Hat 7 advisories

  • RHSA-2020:2565 Released 2020-06-15 · Red Hat rating Important
    EAP Continuous Delivery Technical Preview Release 18 security update
    • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Continuous Delivery
  • RHSA-2020:0727 Released 2020-03-05 · Red Hat rating Important
    Red Hat Data Grid 7.3.3 security update
    • Red Hat Data Grid 7.3.3
  • RHSA-2019:2413 Released 2019-08-08 · Red Hat rating Important
    Red Hat Fuse 7.4.0 security update
    • Red Hat Fuse 7.4.0
Show 4 more Red Hat advisories
  • RHSA-2019:1140 Released 2019-05-09 · Red Hat rating Important
    Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.3.1 security update
    • Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.3.1 zip
  • RHSA-2019:1108 Released 2019-05-08 · Red Hat rating Important
    Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.2.1 on RHEL 7 security update
    • Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.2 for RHEL 7 Server eap7-activemq-artemis-2.6.3-5.redhat_00020.1.el7eap, eap7-activemq-artemis-cli-2.6.3-5.redhat_00020.1.el7eap, eap7-activemq-artemis-commons-2.6.3-5.redhat_00020.1.el7eap +47
  • RHSA-2019:1107 Released 2019-05-08 · Red Hat rating Important
    Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.2.1 on RHEL 6 security update
    • Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.2 for RHEL 6 Server eap7-activemq-artemis-2.6.3-5.redhat_00020.1.el6eap, eap7-activemq-artemis-cli-2.6.3-5.redhat_00020.1.el6eap, eap7-activemq-artemis-commons-2.6.3-5.redhat_00020.1.el6eap +47
  • RHSA-2019:1106 Released 2019-05-08 · Red Hat rating Important
    Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.2.1 security update
    • Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.2

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

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

ProductStatusPlan or fix
Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6AffectedNo fix planned: Out of support scope
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6AffectedNo fix planned: Will not fix
Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6AffectedNo fix planned: Out of support scope
Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6AffectedNo fix planned: Out of support scope
Red Hat Data Grid 7.3.3Fixed RHSA-2020:0727
Red Hat Fuse 7.4.0Fixed RHSA-2019:2413
Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.2Fixed RHSA-2019:1106
Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.2 for RHEL 6 ServerFixed RHSA-2019:1107
Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.2 for RHEL 7 ServerFixed RHSA-2019:1108
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Continuous DeliveryFixed RHSA-2020:2565
Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.3.1 zipFixed RHSA-2019:1140
Not affected: 8 products
  • Red Hat Decision Manager 7
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5
  • Red Hat JBoss Operations Network 3
  • Red Hat JBoss SOA Platform 5
  • Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes
  • Red Hat Process Automation 7
  • Red Hat Single Sign-On 7
  • Red Hat Virtualization 4

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2019-3805
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-p2vr-qm33-hrfc

References

Advisory 8

  • TI-2017-08941 Deserialization of untrusted data in Red Hat jbossas KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2010-01790 JBoss Seam 2 (jboss-seam2), as used in JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 4.3.0 for… KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
  • TI-2017-09342 Unrestricted file upload in Apache Tomcat KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 8.1
  • TI-2023-23979 The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service (server resource consumption) because… KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2010-01383 The Web Console (aka web-console) in JBossAs in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application… KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2017-09354 XML external entity injection in Apache Solr before 7.1 with Apache Lucene before 7.1 CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
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Sources

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