RHSA-2021:4012 - 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 Moderate. 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

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 2.4.9 serves as a replacement for Red Hat support for Spring Boot 2.3.10 and includes security, bug fixes, and enhancements. For more information, see the release notes listed in the References section.

Security Fix(es):

• tomcat: Apache Tomcat HTTP/2 Request mix-up (CVE-2020-13943)
• tomcat: HTTP/2 request header mix-up (CVE-2020-17527)

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 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 - 1887648 - CVE-2020-13943 tomcat: Apache Tomcat HTTP/2 Request mix-up
• BZ - 1904221 - CVE-2020-17527 tomcat: HTTP/2 request header mix-up

CVEs

• CVE-2020-13943
• CVE-2020-17527

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/jbossnetwork/restricted/listSoftware.html?downloadType=distributions&product=catRhoar.spring.boot&version=2.4.9
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_support_for_spring_boot/2.4/html/release_notes_for_spring_boot_2.4/index