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Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.3 Moderate Security Advisory RHSA-2020:4247-01

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Calendar Grey October 13, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Red Hat has issued a significant security notice regarding JBoss Enterprise Application. Here are the particulars concerning the updates and the security enhancements implemented.
An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3

Solution

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

The References section of this erratum contains a download link (you must log in to download the update).

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

Summary

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 is a platform for Java applications based on the WildFly application runtime.
This release of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3.3 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3.2 and includes bug fixes and enhancements. See the Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3.3 Release Notes for information about the most significant bug fixes and enhancements included in this release.
Security Fix(es):
* picketbox: JBoss EAP reload to admin-only mode allows authentication bypass (CVE-2020-14299)
* wildfly: XML validation manipulation due to incomplete application of use-grammar-pool-only in xercesImpl (CVE-2020-14338)
* xnio: file descriptor leak caused by growing amounts of NIO Selector file handles may lead to DoS (CVE-2020-14340)
* cxf: JMX integration is vulnerable to a MITM attack (CVE-2020-1954)
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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Red Hat DoS attack authentication bypass application platform JBoss

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-1954 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-14299 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-14338 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-14340 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate https://access.redhat.com/jbossnetwork/restricted/listSoftware.html?product=appplatform&downloadType=securityPatches&version=7.3 https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_jboss_enterprise_application_platform/7.3 https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_jboss_enterprise_application_platform/7.3/html-single/installation_guide/index

Package List


Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:4247-01
Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4247
Issue date: 2020-10-13

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise ApplicationPlatform 7.3.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 Red Hat DoS attack authentication bypass application platform JBoss

Relevant Releases Architectures

Bugs Fixed

1824301 - CVE-2020-1954 cxf: JMX integration is vulnerable to a MITM attack

1848533 - CVE-2020-14299 picketbox: JBoss EAP reload to admin-only mode allows authentication bypass

1860054 - CVE-2020-14338 wildfly: XML validation manipulation due to incomplete application of use-grammar-pool-only in xercesImpl

1860218 - CVE-2020-14340 xnio: file descriptor leak caused by growing amounts of NIO Selector file handles may lead to DoS

5. JIRA issues fixed (https://redhat.atlassian.net/jira/projects):

JBEAP-19379 - [GSS](7.3.z) Upgrade Hibernate ORM from 5.3.17 to 5.3.18

JBEAP-19596 - [GSS](7.3.z) CMTOOL-277 - Migration from EAP 6.4 Update 22 to EAP 7.3 create a misspelled 'Application Realm'

JBEAP-19613 - (7.3.z) ELY-1975 - Update AcmeClientSpi#obtainCertificate so that it obtains the order URL from the response to newOrder

JBEAP-19615 - (7.3.z) ELY-1968 - Update error message returned by AcmeClientSpi#getLocation

JBEAP-19642 - (7.3.z) Upgrade jberet-core from 1.3.5.Final to 1.3.7.Final

JBEAP-19695 - [GSS](7.3.z) Upgrade Apache CXF from 3.3.5 to 3.3.7

JBEAP-19698 - [GSS](7.3.z) Upgrade Invocation from 1.5.2.Final-redhat-00001 to 1.5.3.Final...

JBEAP-19700 - [GSS](7.3.z) Upgrade Migration Tool from 1.7.1-redhat-00003 to 1.7.2-redhat-00001

JBEAP-19701 - [GSS](7.3.z) Upgrade jgroups from 4.1.4.Final-redhat-00001 to 4.1.10.Final-redhat-00001

JBEAP-19715 - [GSS](7.3.z) Upgrade Artemis Native to 1.0.2

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