Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:5361 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2020-12-16
Updated:
2020-12-16

RHSA-2020:5361 - Security Advisory

Synopsis

Important: Red Hat build of Thorntail 2.7.2 security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat build of Thorntail.

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. For more information, see the CVE links in the References section.

Description

This release of Red Hat build of Thorntail 2.7.2 includes security updates, bug fixes, and enhancements. For more information, see the release notes listed in the References section.

Security Fix(es):

  • picketbox: JBoss EAP reload to admin-only mode allows authentication bypass (CVE-2020-14299)
  • xnio: file descriptor leak caused by growing amounts of NIO Selector file handles may lead to DoS (CVE-2020-14340)
  • wildfly: XML validation manipulation due to incomplete application of use-grammar-pool-only in xercesImpl (CVE-2020-14338)
  • hibernate-core: SQL injection vulnerability when both hibernate.use_sql_comments and JPQL String literals are used

(CVE-2020-25638)

  • jackson-databind: FasterXML DOMDeserializer insecure entity expansion is vulnerable to XML external entity (XXE) (CVE-2020-25649)

For more details about the security issues and their impact, the CVSS score, acknowledgements, and other related information, see the CVE pages 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 for the update. You must be logged in to download the update.

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Openshift Application Runtimes Text-Only Advisories x86_64

Fixes

  • 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
  • BZ - 1881353 - CVE-2020-25638 hibernate-core: SQL injection vulnerability when both hibernate.use_sql_comments and JPQL String literals are used
  • BZ - 1887664 - CVE-2020-25649 jackson-databind: FasterXML DOMDeserializer insecure entity expansion is vulnerable to XML external entity (XXE)

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