Synopsis

Important: CloudForms 4.6.9 security, bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update is now available for CloudForms Management Engine 5.9.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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 CloudForms Management Engine delivers the insight, control, and automation needed to address the challenges of managing virtual environments. CloudForms Management Engine is built on Ruby on Rails, a model-view-controller (MVC) framework for web application development. Action Pack implements the controller and the view components.

Security Fix(es):

• rubygem-actionpack: render file directory traversal in Action View (CVE-2019-5418)
• rubygem-actionpack: denial of service vulnerability in Action View (CVE-2019-5419)

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.

Additional Changes:

This update fixes various bugs and adds enhancements. Documentation for these changes is available from the Release Notes document linked to in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

If the postgresql service is running, it will be automatically restarted after installing this update. After installing the updated packages, the httpd daemon will be restarted automatically.

Affected Products

• Red Hat CloudForms 4.6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1688871 - Unable to see dialog details passed to catalog after upgrade from 5.9.4 to 5.9.6
• BZ - 1689159 - CVE-2019-5418 rubygem-actionpack: render file directory traversal in Action View
• BZ - 1689160 - CVE-2019-5419 rubygem-actionpack: denial of service vulnerability in Action View
• BZ - 1695655 - [RFE] Metrics for memory usage of AWS instances needs to be collected from CloudWatch new Agent
• BZ - 1696363 - Different syntax by Service Request in Master region
• BZ - 1704340 - OpenStack Snapshot Image Doesn't Inherit the Same Cloud Tenant as the Instance

CVEs

• CVE-2019-5418
• CVE-2019-5419

References