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RedHat: RHSA-2020-4402-01 Important: JBoss App XML Issue With Score

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Calendar Grey October 28, 2020
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Red Hat has issued an important alert concerning security vulnerabilities in JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3, particularly focusing on a significant XML external entity (XXE) risk.
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).

You must restart the JBoss server process for the update to take effect.

Summary

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 is a platform for Java applications based on the WildFly application runtime.
This asynchronous patch is a security update for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3.
Security Fix(es):
* jackson-databind: FasterXML DOMDeserializer insecure entity expansion is vulnerable to XML external entity (CVE-2020-25649)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, see the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory update security impact enterprise application Important XML issue Red Hat JBoss

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-25649 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important https://access.redhat.com/jbossnetwork/restricted/listSoftware.html?product=appplatform&downloadType=securityPatches&version=7.3 https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_jboss_enterprise_application_platform/7.3/ https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_jboss_enterprise_application_platform/7.3/html-single/installation_guide/

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:4402-01
Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4402
Issue date: 2020-10-28

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 Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory update security impact enterprise application Important XML issue Red Hat JBoss

Relevant Releases Architectures

Bugs Fixed

1887664 - CVE-2020-25649 jackson-databind: FasterXML DOMDeserializer insecure entity expansion is vulnerable to XML external entity (XXE)

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