RHSA-2020:3017 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat support for Spring Boot.

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 support for Spring Boot provides an application platform that reduces the complexity of developing and operating applications (monoliths and microservices) for OpenShift as a containerized platform.

This release of Red Hat support for Spring Boot 2.1.15 serves as a replacement for Red Hat support for Spring Boot 2.1.13, and includes security and bug fixes and enhancements. For further information, refer to the release notes linked to in the References section.

Security Fix(es):

• keycloak: Lack of checks in ObjectInputStream leading to Remote Code Execution (CVE-2020-1714)
• tomcat: deserialization flaw in session persistence storage leading to RCE (CVE-2020-9484)

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.

Solution

Before applying the update, back up your existing installation, including all applications, configuration files, databases and database settings, and so on.

The References section of this erratum contains a download link (you must log in to download the update).

Affected Products

• Red Hat Openshift Application Runtimes Text-Only Advisories x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1705975 - CVE-2020-1714 keycloak: Lack of checks in ObjectInputStream leading to Remote Code Execution
• BZ - 1838332 - CVE-2020-9484 tomcat: deserialization flaw in session persistence storage leading to RCE

CVEs

• CVE-2020-1714
• CVE-2020-9484

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://access.redhat.com/jbossnetwork/restricted/listSoftware.html?downloadType=distributions&product=catRhoar.spring.boot&version=2.1.15
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_support_for_spring_boot/2.1/html-single/release_notes_for_spring_boot_2.1/index