RHSA-2022:0146 - Security Advisory

Topic

This advisory resolves CVE issues filed against XP2 releases that have been fixed in the underlying EAP 7.3.x base. There are no changes to the EAP XP2 code base.

NOTE: This advisory is informational only. There are no code changes associated with it. No action is required.

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

These are CVE issues filed against XP2 releases that have been fixed in the underlying EAP 7.3.x base. There are no changes to the EAP XP2 code base.

Security Fix(es):

• undertow: potential security issue in flow control over HTTP/2 may lead to DOS (CVE-2021-3629)
• wildfly-elytron: possible timing attack in ScramServer (CVE-2021-3642)
• wildfly: incorrect JBOSS_LOCAL_USER challenge location may lead to giving access to all the local users (CVE-2021-3717)
• jsoup: Crafted input may cause the jsoup HTML and XML parser to get stuck (CVE-2021-37714)
• xml-security: XPath Transform abuse allows for information disclosure (CVE-2021-40690)
• resteasy: Error message exposes endpoint class information (CVE-2021-20289)

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

This advisory is informational only. There are no code changes associated with it. No action is required.

Affected Products

• JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Text-Only Advisories x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1935927 - CVE-2021-20289 resteasy: Error message exposes endpoint class information
• BZ - 1977362 - CVE-2021-3629 undertow: potential security issue in flow control over HTTP/2 may lead to DOS
• BZ - 1981407 - CVE-2021-3642 wildfly-elytron: possible timing attack in ScramServer
• BZ - 1991305 - CVE-2021-3717 wildfly: incorrect JBOSS_LOCAL_USER challenge location may lead to giving access to all the local users
• BZ - 1995259 - CVE-2021-37714 jsoup: Crafted input may cause the jsoup HTML and XML parser to get stuck
• BZ - 2011190 - CVE-2021-40690 xml-security: XPath Transform abuse allows for information disclosure
• JBEAP-22652 - XP 2.0.0 respin (2.0.0-7.3.10.GA)

CVEs

• CVE-2021-3629
• CVE-2021-3642
• CVE-2021-3717
• CVE-2021-20289
• CVE-2021-37714
• CVE-2021-40690

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_jboss_enterprise_application_platform/7.3/
• https://access.redhat.com/articles/5975301