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Red Hat JBoss 5.2: RHSA-2018:2663-01 Critical: Remote Code Execution

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Calendar Grey September 10, 2018
Dist Redhat Esm H88
The recent patch for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application contains significant vulnerabilities. Understand the emergence of potential remote code execution threats.
A security update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform from the Customer Portal

Solution

Before applying this update, back up your existing Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform installation and deployed applications.

The JBoss server process must be restarted for the update to take effect.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2 is a platform for Java applications based on jbossas.
This asynchronous patch is a security update for RichFaces and Apache CXF packages in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2.
Security Fix(es):
* Injection of arbitrary EL expressions allows remote code execution via org.richfaces.renderkit.html.Paint2DResource. (CVE-2018-12533)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue critical remote code execution Red Hat JBoss

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12533 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical https://access.redhat.com/jbossnetwork/restricted/listSoftware.html?product=appplatform&downloadType=securityPatches&version=5.2.0

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:2663-01
Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2663
Issue date: 2018-09-10

Topic

A security update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise ApplicationPlatform from the Customer Portal.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue critical remote code execution Red Hat JBoss

Relevant Releases Architectures

Bugs Fixed

1584490 - CVE-2018-12533 RichFaces: Injection of arbitrary EL expressions allows remote code execution via org.richfaces.renderkit.html.Paint2DResource

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