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RedHat CloudForms 5.11 RHSA-2020:2480 Moderate: Session Hijack Risk

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Calendar Grey June 10, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
CloudForms Management Engine 5.11 has been improved with moderate severity ratings, fixing various security issues and bugs to boost overall performance
An update is now available for CloudForms Management Engine 5.11

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

If the postgresql service is running, it will be automatically restarted after installing this update. After installing the updated packages, the httpd daemon will be restarted automatically.

Summary

Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine delivers the insight, control, and automation needed to address the challenges of managing virtual environments. CloudForms Management Engine is built on Ruby on Rails, a model-view-controller (MVC) framework for web application development. Action Pack implements the controller and the view components.
Security Fix(es):
* cfme-gemset: rubygem-rack: hijack sessions by using timing attacks targeting the session id (CVE-2019-16782)
* cfme-amazon-smartstate: rubygem-rack: hijack sessions by using timing attacks targeting the session id (CVE-2019-16782)
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:
This update fixes various bugs and adds enhancements. Documentation for these changes is available from the Release Notes document linked to in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security issue bug fix session hijack Red Hat CloudForms

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-16782 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List

CloudForms Management Engine 5.11:
Source: ansible-runner-1.4.6-1.el8ar.src.rpm cfme-5.11.6.0-1.el8cf.src.rpm cfme-amazon-smartstate-5.11.6.0-1.el8cf.src.rpm cfme-appliance-5.11.6.0-1.el8cf.src.rpm cfme-gemset-5.11.6.0-1.el8cf.src.rpm libssh2-1.9.0-2.el8cf.src.rpm
noarch: ansible-runner-1.4.6-1.el8ar.noarch.rpm python3-ansible-runner-1.4.6-1.el8ar.noarch.rpm
x86_64: cfme-5.11.6.0-1.el8cf.x86_64.rpm cfme-amazon-smartstate-5.11.6.0-1.el8cf.x86_64.rpm cfme-appliance-5.11.6.0-1.el8cf.x86_64.rpm cfme-appliance-common-5.11.6.0-1.el8cf.x86_64.rpm cfme-appliance-tools-5.11.6.0-1.el8cf.x86_64.rpm cfme-gemset-5.11.6.0-1.el8cf.x86_64.rpm libssh2-1.9.0-2.el8cf.x86_64.rpm libssh2-debuginfo-1.9.0-2.el8cf.x86_64.rpm libssh2-debugsource-1.9.0-2.el8cf.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key


Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:2480-01
Product: Red Hat CloudForms
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:2480
Issue date: 2020-06-10
Cross references: RHBA-2020:53145

Topic

An update is now available for CloudForms Management Engine 5.11.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 issue bug fix session hijack Red Hat CloudForms

Relevant Releases Architectures

CloudForms Management Engine 5.11 - noarch, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1529718 - Remove tags from Topology Views

1718846 - [v2v] Conversion host can be removed while VMware->RHV VMs migration is still running

1719266 - [v2v] Add error message in UI, in case VMware hosts are missing credentials

1740405 - Breadcrumbs with incorrect words and not links.

1746211 - unexpected error when dialog with dropdownlist with integer data type is edited to multiline (forces dialog deletion)

1746860 - EC2 Classic EIP addresses are not refreshed by targeted refresh

1760001 - [v2v] Scrollbar container height issues on the migration plan details page

1783511 - CC emails are not sent during provision

1789100 - CVE-2019-16782 rubygem-rack: hijack sessions by using timing attacks targeting the session id

1797706 - nil dereference error when clicking on customize in RHV provisioning request

1805847 - Custom menu widgets don't generate Breadcrumbs

1810406 - [v2v] No response in CFME to Delete Conversion host VM action, after it was removed from RHV

1815479 - openstack network manager refresh fails with undefined method `address' for nil

1818172 - Inconsistent behaviour between Cloud and Infra providers regarding sending emails about Pending request

1819998 - [UPSTREAM] Unable to cancel migration from CFME

1821842 - [UPSTREAM] V2V: Message logged for preflight check failure should be more specific when VM already exists on target provider

1824355 - Cockpit worker is crashing with message undefined local variable or method `stdin'

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