JBoss Application Server Privilege Escalation Vulnerability - CVE-2007-1354 - Vulnerability Database

JBoss Application Server Privilege Escalation Vulnerability - CVE-2007-1354

Medium
Reference: CVE-2007-1354
Title: JBoss Application Server Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Overview:

The Access Control functionality (JMXOpsAccessControlFilter) in JMX Console in JBoss Application Server 4.0.2 and 4.0.5 before 20070416 uses a member variable to store the roles of the current user which allows remote authenticated administrators to trigger a race condition and gain privileges by logging in during a session by a more privileged administrator as demonstrated by privilege escalation from Read Mode to Write Mode.