RHSA-2017:3124 - Security Advisory

Topic

A security update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application
Platform 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

[Updated 6th November 2017]
Previously, this erratum was marked as having a security impact of Critical. This was incorrect; Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 was affected with a security impact of Moderate. This advisory has been updated to that effect.

Description

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is a platform for Java
applications based on the JBoss Application Server.

This asynchronous patch is a security update for lucene package in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0.8

Security Fix(es):

• It was found that Apache Lucene would accept an object from an unauthenticated user that could be manipulated through subsequent post requests. An attacker could use this flaw to assemble an object that could permit execution of arbitrary code if the server enabled Apache Solr's Config API. (CVE-2017-12629)

For more information regarding CVE-2017-12629, see the article linked in the references section.

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).

Affected Products

• JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Text-Only Advisories x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1501529 - CVE-2017-12629 Solr: Code execution via entity expansion

CVEs

• CVE-2017-12629

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/CVE-2017-12629
• https://access.redhat.com/jbossnetwork/restricted/listSoftware.html?product=appplatform&downloadType=securityPatches&version=7.0
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en/jboss-enterprise-application-platform/