RHSA-2020:2480 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update is now available for CloudForms Management Engine 5.11.

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.

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):

• cfme-gemset: rubygem-rack: hijack sessions by using timing attacks targeting the session id (CVE-2019-16782)
• cfme-amazon-smartstate: rubygem-rack: hijack sessions by using timing attacks targeting the session id (CVE-2019-16782)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, 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 5.11 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1529718 - Remove tags from Topology Views
• BZ - 1718846 - [v2v] Conversion host can be removed while VMware->RHV VMs migration is still running
• BZ - 1719266 - [v2v] Add error message in UI, in case VMware hosts are missing credentials
• BZ - 1740405 - Breadcrumbs with incorrect words and not links.
• BZ - 1746211 - unexpected error when dialog with dropdownlist with integer data type is edited to multiline (forces dialog deletion)
• BZ - 1746860 - EC2 Classic EIP addresses are not refreshed by targeted refresh
• BZ - 1760001 - [v2v] Scrollbar container height issues on the migration plan details page
• BZ - 1783511 - CC emails are not sent during provision
• BZ - 1789100 - CVE-2019-16782 rubygem-rack: hijack sessions by using timing attacks targeting the session id
• BZ - 1797706 - nil dereference error when clicking on customize in RHV provisioning request
• BZ - 1805847 - Custom menu widgets don't generate Breadcrumbs
• BZ - 1810406 - [v2v] No response in CFME to Delete Conversion host VM action, after it was removed from RHV
• BZ - 1815479 - openstack network manager refresh fails with undefined method `address' for nil
• BZ - 1818172 - Inconsistent behaviour between Cloud and Infra providers regarding sending emails about Pending request
• BZ - 1819998 - [UPSTREAM] Unable to cancel migration from CFME
• BZ - 1821842 - [UPSTREAM] V2V: Message logged for preflight check failure should be more specific when VM already exists on target provider
• BZ - 1824355 - Cockpit worker is crashing with message undefined local variable or method `stdin'
• BZ - 1824846 - [RFE] make the ansible tower refresh worker continue on playbook import errors
• BZ - 1827127 - [v2v] Disable the playbook log download when it has not run.
• BZ - 1830305 - Provisioning an AWS instance fails with InvalidInstanceIDNotFound
• BZ - 1830349 - Embedded ansible not picking up jobs after upgrading from 5.10
• BZ - 1833362 - Unable to rename VM using Rest API
• BZ - 1835911 - [v2v] [RFE] Convert Migration Plans in Progress cards view into a ListViewTable
• BZ - 1837410 - Reconfigure a service display all fields despite some are tagged as "non reconfigurable"

CVEs

• CVE-2019-16782

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_cloudforms/5.0/html/release_notes