RHSA-2021:0250 - 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 7.3.5 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3.4, and includes bug fixes and enhancements. See the Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3.5 Release Notes for information about the most significant bug fixes and enhancements included in this release.

Security Fix(es):

• wildfly: Potential Memory leak in Wildfly when using OpenTracing (CVE-2020-27822)
• undertow: special character in query results in server errors (CVE-2020-27782)
• wildfly-core: memory leak in WildFly host-controller in domain mode while not able to reconnect to domain-controller (CVE-2020-25689)
• httpclient: apache-httpclient: incorrect handling of malformed authority component in request URIs (CVE-2020-13956)
• wildfly: resource adapter logs plaintext JMS password at warning level on connection error (CVE-2020-25640)
• resteasy-client: potential sensitive information leakage in JAX-RS RESTEasy Client's WebApplicationException handling (CVE-2020-25633)

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 contain 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 - 1879042 - CVE-2020-25633 resteasy-client: potential sensitive information leakage in JAX-RS RESTEasy Client's WebApplicationException handling
• BZ - 1881637 - CVE-2020-25640 wildfly: resource adapter logs plaintext JMS password at warning level on connection error
• BZ - 1886587 - CVE-2020-13956 apache-httpclient: incorrect handling of malformed authority component in request URIs
• BZ - 1893070 - CVE-2020-25689 wildfly-core: memory leak in WildFly host-controller in domain mode while not able to reconnect to domain-controller
• BZ - 1901304 - CVE-2020-27782 undertow: special character in query results in server errors
• BZ - 1904060 - CVE-2020-27822 wildfly: Potential Memory leak in Wildfly when using OpenTracing

CVEs

• CVE-2020-13956
• CVE-2020-25633
• CVE-2020-25640
• CVE-2020-25689
• CVE-2020-27782
• CVE-2020-27822

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/