RHSA-2020:2780 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4
for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

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 is a platform for Java applications based on the JBoss Application Server.

This release of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.23 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.22, and includes bug fixes and enhancements, which are documented in the Release Notes document linked to in the References.

Security Fix(es):

• jbossweb: tomcat: Apache Tomcat AJP File Read/Inclusion Vulnerability (CVE-2020-1938)
• JBoss EAP: Vault system property security attribute value is revealed on CLI 'reload' command (CVE-2019-14885)

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.

All users of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 on Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 5 are advised to upgrade to these updated packages. The JBoss
server process must be restarted for the update to take effect.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

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

Affected Products

• JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 for RHEL 7 ppc64
• JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 for RHEL 7 ppc64

Fixes

• BZ - 1700855 - [GSS](6.4.z) Upgrade HornetQ from 2.3.25.SP29 to 2.3.25.SP31
• BZ - 1708467 - [GSS](6.4.z) Upgrade Remoting JMX from 1.1.3 to 1.1.4
• BZ - 1710434 - Tracker bug for the EAP 6.4.23 release for RHEL-7.
• BZ - 1770615 - CVE-2019-14885 JBoss EAP: Vault system property security attribute value is revealed on CLI 'reload' command
• BZ - 1772542 - [GSS](6.4.z) Upgrade Mojarra from 1.2.15.b01-SP2 to 1.2.15.b01-SP2-redhat-2
• BZ - 1806398 - CVE-2020-1938 tomcat: Apache Tomcat AJP File Read/Inclusion Vulnerability
• BZ - 1816579 - [GSS](6.4.z) Upgrade IronJacamar from 1.0.43.Final-redhat-1 to 1.0.44.Final-redhat-1
• BZ - 1816629 - [GSS](6.4.z) Upgrade Weld from 1.1.34 to 1.1.34.Final-redhat-2
• BZ - 1819214 - (6.4.z) Update JBOSGI Core Repository from 2.1.0.Final-redhat-2 to 2.1.0.Final-redhat-3

CVEs

• CVE-2019-14885
• CVE-2020-1938

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/JBoss_Enterprise_Application_Platform/6.4/index.html