RHSA-2020:5344 - 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
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 7.3.4 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3.3, and includes bug fixes and enhancements. See the Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3.4 Release Notes for information about the most significant bug fixes and enhancements included in this release.

Security Fix(es):

• jackson-databind: FasterXML DOMDeserializer insecure entity expansion is vulnerable to XML external entity (CVE-2020-25649)
• hibernate-core: SQL injection vulnerability when both hibernate.use_sql_comments and JPQL String literals are used (CVE-2020-25638)
• wildfly-openssl: memory leak per HTTP session creation in WildFly OpenSSL (CVE-2020-25644)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, see 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 - 1881353 - CVE-2020-25638 hibernate-core: SQL injection vulnerability when both hibernate.use_sql_comments and JPQL String literals are used
• BZ - 1885485 - CVE-2020-25644 wildfly-openssl: memory leak per HTTP session creation in WildFly OpenSSL
• BZ - 1887664 - CVE-2020-25649 jackson-databind: FasterXML DOMDeserializer insecure entity expansion is vulnerable to XML external entity (XXE)

CVEs

• CVE-2020-25638
• CVE-2020-25644
• CVE-2020-25649

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• 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/