CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS
Percentile
94.1%
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2015:1695
jakarta-taglibs-standard is the Java Standard Tag Library (JSTL).
This library is used in conjunction with Tomcat and Java Server Pages
(JSP).
It was found that the Java Standard Tag Library (JSTL) allowed the
processing of untrusted XML documents to utilize external entity
references, which could access resources on the host system and,
potentially, allowing arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2015-0254)
Note: jakarta-taglibs-standard users may need to take additional steps
after applying this update. Detailed instructions on the additional steps
can be found here:
https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1584363
All jakarta-taglibs-standard users are advised to upgrade to these updated
packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue.
Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2015-September/083520.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2015-September/083521.html
Affected packages:
jakarta-taglibs-standard
jakarta-taglibs-standard-javadoc
Upstream details at:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:1695
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
CentOS | 6 | noarch | jakarta-taglibs-standard | < 1.1.1-11.7.el6_7 | jakarta-taglibs-standard-1.1.1-11.7.el6_7.noarch.rpm |
CentOS | 6 | noarch | jakarta-taglibs-standard-javadoc | < 1.1.1-11.7.el6_7 | jakarta-taglibs-standard-javadoc-1.1.1-11.7.el6_7.noarch.rpm |
CentOS | 6 | noarch | jakarta-taglibs-standard | < 1.1.1-11.7.el6_7 | jakarta-taglibs-standard-1.1.1-11.7.el6_7.noarch.rpm |
CentOS | 6 | noarch | jakarta-taglibs-standard-javadoc | < 1.1.1-11.7.el6_7 | jakarta-taglibs-standard-javadoc-1.1.1-11.7.el6_7.noarch.rpm |
CentOS | 7 | noarch | jakarta-taglibs-standard | < 1.1.2-14.el7_1 | jakarta-taglibs-standard-1.1.2-14.el7_1.noarch.rpm |
CentOS | 7 | noarch | jakarta-taglibs-standard-javadoc | < 1.1.2-14.el7_1 | jakarta-taglibs-standard-javadoc-1.1.2-14.el7_1.noarch.rpm |