RHSA-2020:4247 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3.

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 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 7.3.3 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3.2 and includes bug fixes and enhancements. See the Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3.3 Release Notes for information about the most significant bug fixes and enhancements included in this release.

Security Fix(es):

• picketbox: JBoss EAP reload to admin-only mode allows authentication bypass (CVE-2020-14299)
• wildfly: XML validation manipulation due to incomplete application of use-grammar-pool-only in xercesImpl (CVE-2020-14338)
• xnio: file descriptor leak caused by growing amounts of NIO Selector file handles may lead to DoS (CVE-2020-14340)
• cxf: JMX integration is vulnerable to a MITM attack (CVE-2020-1954)

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 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 - 1824301 - CVE-2020-1954 cxf: JMX integration is vulnerable to a MITM attack
• BZ - 1848533 - CVE-2020-14299 picketbox: JBoss EAP reload to admin-only mode allows authentication bypass
• BZ - 1860054 - CVE-2020-14338 wildfly: XML validation manipulation due to incomplete application of use-grammar-pool-only in xercesImpl
• BZ - 1860218 - CVE-2020-14340 xnio: file descriptor leak caused by growing amounts of NIO Selector file handles may lead to DoS

CVEs

• CVE-2020-1954
• CVE-2020-14299
• CVE-2020-14338
• CVE-2020-14340

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/jbossnetwork/restricted/listSoftware.html?product=appplatform&downloadType=securityPatches&version=7.3
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_jboss_enterprise_application_platform/7.3/
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_jboss_enterprise_application_platform/7.3/html-single/installation_guide/