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Red Hat Enterprise Linux: RHSA-2020:1660-01 Moderate: Open Redirect Issue

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Calendar Grey April 28, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
New release for mod_auth_mellon now out for Red Hat EL. This fixes an important security vulnerability that was impacting user logins.
An update for mod_auth_mellon is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

The mod_auth_mellon module for the Apache HTTP Server is an authentication service that implements the SAML 2.0 federation protocol. The module grants access based on the attributes received in assertions generated by an IdP server.
Security Fix(es):
* mod_auth_mellon: Open Redirect via the login?ReturnTo= substring which could facilitate information theft (CVE-2019-13038)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux information theft mod_auth_mellon Open Redirect

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-13038 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.2_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: mod_auth_mellon-0.14.0-11.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: mod_auth_mellon-0.14.0-11.el8.aarch64.rpm mod_auth_mellon-debuginfo-0.14.0-11.el8.aarch64.rpm mod_auth_mellon-debugsource-0.14.0-11.el8.aarch64.rpm mod_auth_mellon-diagnostics-0.14.0-11.el8.aarch64.rpm mod_auth_mellon-diagnostics-debuginfo-0.14.0-11.el8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: mod_auth_mellon-0.14.0-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm mod_auth_mellon-debuginfo-0.14.0-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm mod_auth_mellon-debugsource-0.14.0-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm mod_auth_mellon-diagnostics-0.14.0-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm mod_auth_mellon-diagnostics-debuginfo-0.14.0-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: mod_auth_mellon-0.14.0-11.el8.s390x.rpm mod_auth_mellon-debuginfo-0.14.0-11.el8.s390x.rpm mod_auth_mellon-debugsource-0.14.0-11.el8.s390x.rpm mod_auth_mellon-diagnostics-0.14.0-11.el8.s390x.rpm mod_auth_mellon-diagnostics-debuginfo-0.14.0-11.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64: mod_auth_mellon-0.14.0-11.el8.x86_64.rpm mod_auth_mellon-debuginfo-0.14.0-11.el8.x86_64.rpm mod_auth_mellon-debugsource-0.14.0-11.el8.x86_64.rpm mod_auth_mellon-diagnostics-0.14.0-11.el8.x86_64.rpm mod_auth_mellon-diagnostics-debuginfo-0.14.0-11.el8.x86_64.rpm
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Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:1660-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1660
Issue date: 2020-04-28

Topic

An update for mod_auth_mellon is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. 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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux information theft mod_auth_mellon Open Redirect

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1725740 - CVE-2019-13038 mod_auth_mellon: Open Redirect via the login?ReturnTo= substring which could facilitate information theft

1761774 - mod_auth_mellon fix for AJAX header name X-Requested-With

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