RHSA-2018:3581 - Security Advisory

Topic

A security update is now available for Red Hat JBoss BRMS 5.3.1.

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 BRMS is a business rules management system for the
management, storage, creation, modification, and deployment of JBoss Rules.

This asynchronous patch is a security update for the RichFaces package in standalone versions of Red Hat JBoss BRMS 5.3.1.

Security Fix(es):

• RichFaces: Expression Language injection via UserResource allows for unauthenticated remote code execution (CVE-2018-14667)

See https://access.redhat.com/solutions/3660371 for specific information regarding this flaw.

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.

Red Hat would like to thank Joao Filho Matos Figueiredo for reporting this issue.

Solution

The References section of this erratum contains a download link (you must
log in to download the update). Before applying the update, back up your
existing Red Hat JBoss BRMS installation (including its databases,
applications, configuration files, and so on).

Note that it is recommended to halt the Red Hat JBoss BRMS server by
stopping the JBoss Application Server process before installing this
update, and then after installing the update, restart the Red Hat JBoss
BRMS server by starting the JBoss Application Server process.

Affected Products

• Red Hat JBoss Middleware Text-Only Advisories for MIDDLEWARE 1 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1639139 - CVE-2018-14667 RichFaces: Expression Language injection via UserResource allows for unauthenticated remote code execution

CVEs

• CVE-2018-14667

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical
• https://access.redhat.com/solutions/3660371
• https://access.redhat.com/jbossnetwork/restricted/listSoftware.html?product=brms&downloadType=securityPatches&version=5.3.1