RHSA-2018:2664 - Security Advisory

Topic

A security update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application
Platform from the Customer Portal.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. 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.

Description

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2 is a platform for Java
applications based on jbossas.

This asynchronous patch is a security update for RichFaces and Apache CXF packages in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2.

Security Fix(es):

• Injection of arbitrary EL expressions allows remote code execution via org.richfaces.renderkit.html.Paint2DResource. (CVE-2018-12533)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

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

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

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 for RHEL 6 x86_64
• JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 for RHEL 6 i386
• JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 for RHEL 5 x86_64
• JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 for RHEL 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 1584490 - CVE-2018-12533 RichFaces: Injection of arbitrary EL expressions allows remote code execution via org.richfaces.renderkit.html.Paint2DResource

CVEs

• CVE-2018-12533

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_jboss_enterprise_application_platform/5/