RHSA-2020:0164 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.2.

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 JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 is a platform for Java applications based on the WildFly application runtime.

This release of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.2.6 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.2.5, and includes bug fixes and enhancements. See the Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.2.6 Release Notes for information about the most significant bug fixes and enhancements included in this release.

Security Fix(es):

• undertow: possible Denial Of Service (DOS) in Undertow HTTP server listening

on HTTPS (CVE-2019-14888)

• jboss-cli: JBoss EAP: Vault system property security attribute value is

revealed on CLI 'reload' command (CVE-2019-14885)

• netty: HTTP request smuggling by mishandled whitespace before the colon in

HTTP headers (CVE-2019-16869)

• jackson-databind: polymorphic typing issue related to

com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariConfig (CVE-2019-14540)

• jackson-databind: Serialization gadgets in classes of the commons-dbcp package

(CVE-2019-16942)

• jackson-databind: Serialization gadgets in classes of the

commons-configuration package (CVE-2019-14892)

• jackson-databind: polymorphic typing issue related to

com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariDataSource (CVE-2019-16335)

• jackson-databind: Serialization gadgets in classes of the p6spy package

(CVE-2019-16943)

• jackson-databind: polymorphic typing issue when enabling default typing for an

externally exposed JSON endpoint and having apache-log4j-extra in the classpath
leads to code execution (CVE-2019-17531)

• jackson-databind: Serialization gadgets in classes of the xalan package

(CVE-2019-14893)

• hibernate-validator: safeHTML validator allows XSS (CVE-2019-10219)
• jackson-databind: Serialization gadgets in classes of the ehcache package

(CVE-2019-17267)

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).

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

Affected Products

• JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Text-Only Advisories x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1738673 - CVE-2019-10219 hibernate-validator: safeHTML validator allows XSS
• BZ - 1755831 - CVE-2019-16335 jackson-databind: polymorphic typing issue related to com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariDataSource
• BZ - 1755849 - CVE-2019-14540 jackson-databind: polymorphic typing issue related to com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariConfig
• BZ - 1758167 - CVE-2019-17267 jackson-databind: Serialization gadgets in classes of the ehcache package
• BZ - 1758171 - CVE-2019-14892 jackson-databind: Serialization gadgets in classes of the commons-configuration package
• BZ - 1758182 - CVE-2019-14893 jackson-databind: Serialization gadgets in classes of the xalan package
• BZ - 1758187 - CVE-2019-16942 jackson-databind: Serialization gadgets in classes of the commons-dbcp package
• BZ - 1758191 - CVE-2019-16943 jackson-databind: Serialization gadgets in classes of the p6spy package
• BZ - 1758619 - CVE-2019-16869 netty: HTTP request smuggling by mishandled whitespace before the colon in HTTP headers
• BZ - 1770615 - CVE-2019-14885 JBoss EAP: Vault system property security attribute value is revealed on CLI 'reload' command
• BZ - 1772464 - CVE-2019-14888 undertow: possible Denial Of Service (DOS) in Undertow HTTP server listening on HTTPS
• BZ - 1775293 - CVE-2019-17531 jackson-databind: polymorphic typing issue when enabling default typing for an externally exposed JSON endpoint and having apache-log4j-extra in the classpath leads to code execution

CVEs

• CVE-2019-10219
• CVE-2019-14540
• CVE-2019-14885
• CVE-2019-14888
• CVE-2019-14892
• CVE-2019-14893
• CVE-2019-16335
• CVE-2019-16869
• CVE-2019-16942
• CVE-2019-16943
• CVE-2019-17267
• CVE-2019-17531

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://access.redhat.com/jbossnetwork/restricted/listSoftware.html?product=appplatform&downloadType=securityPatches&version=7.2
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_jboss_enterprise_application_platform/7.2/
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_jboss_enterprise_application_platform/7.2/html-single/installation_guide/