Risk Mitigation & User Action

Customers using the affected software are encouraged to apply the risk mitigations, if possible. Additionally, we encourage customers to implement our suggested security best practices to minimize the risk of vulnerability.

Update to v5.20
QA43240 - Recommended Security Guidelines from Rockwell Automation

If customers are unable to update to v5.20, please follow the instructions below to disable the vulnerability in v5.17.

Open the web.xml file in your Pavilion8® installation folder set during installation and go to Console\container\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF, by default this would be under C:\Pavilion\Console\container\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF.
Search for the text jmx-console-action-handler and delete the below lines from web.xml file:

<servlet> <servlet-name>jmx-console-action-handler</servlet-name> <servlet-class>com.pav.jboss.jmx.HtmlAdaptorServlet</servlet-class> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>jmx-console-action-handler</servlet-name> <url-pattern>/jmx-console/HtmlAdaptor</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping>
Save the changes and close the file.
Restart Pavilion8® Console Service.
Logout and log back into the console and navigate to the URL http:// <FQDN>/jmx-console to confirm you are getting the error message HTTP Status 404 – Not Found.

Note: <FQDN> is your fully qualified domain name used for the Console login.

Pavilion8 Security Vulnerabilities - 2023