RHSA-2024:10208 - Security Advisory

Topic

A security update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
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 7.1.8 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1.7, and includes bug fixes and enhancements. See the Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1.8 Release Notes for information about the most significant bug fixes and enhancements included in this release.

Security Fix(es):

• bouncycastle: password bypass in OpenBSDBCrypt.checkPassword utility possible [eap-7.1.z] (CVE-2020-28052)
• hsqldb: Untrusted input may lead to RCE attack [eap-7.1.z] (CVE-2022-41853)
• cxf-core: Apache CXF SSRF Vulnerability using the Aegis databinding [eap-7.1.z] (CVE-2024-28752)
• h2: Loading of custom classes from remote servers through JNDI [eap-7.1.z] (CVE-2022-23221)
• CXF: Apache CXF: SSRF Vulnerability [eap-7.1.z] (CVE-2022-46364)
• xalan: integer truncation issue in Xalan-J (JAXP, 8285407) [eap-7.1.z] (CVE-2022-34169)
• log4j: log4j1-chainsaw, log4j1-socketappender: DoS via hashmap logging [eap-7.1.z] (CVE-2023-26464)
• xnio: StackOverflowException when the chain of notifier states becomes problematically big [eap-7.1.z] (CVE-2023-5685)
• server: eap-7: heap exhaustion via deserialization [eap-7.1.z] (CVE-2023-3171)
• netty: HTTP Request Smuggling due to Transfer-Encoding whitespace mishandling [eap-7.1.z] (CVE-2020-7238)
• avro: apache-avro: Apache Avro Java SDK: Memory when deserializing untrusted data in Avro Java SDK [eap-7.1.z] (CVE-2023-39410)
• avro: apache-avro: Schema parsing may trigger Remote Code Execution (RCE) [eap-7.1.z] (CVE-2024-47561)

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 this update, ensure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. Also, back up your existing installation, including all applications, configuration files, databases and database settings. For details on how to apply this update, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 EUS 7.1 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1796225 - CVE-2020-7238 netty: HTTP Request Smuggling due to Transfer-Encoding whitespace mishandling
• BZ - 1912881 - CVE-2020-28052 bouncycastle: password bypass in OpenBSDBCrypt.checkPassword utility possible
• BZ - 2044596 - CVE-2022-23221 h2: Loading of custom classes from remote servers through JNDI
• BZ - 2108554 - CVE-2022-34169 OpenJDK: integer truncation issue in Xalan-J (JAXP, 8285407)
• BZ - 2136141 - CVE-2022-41853 hsqldb: Untrusted input may lead to RCE attack
• BZ - 2155682 - CVE-2022-46364 Apache CXF: SSRF Vulnerability
• BZ - 2182864 - CVE-2023-26464 log4j1-chainsaw, log4j1-socketappender: DoS via hashmap logging
• BZ - 2213639 - CVE-2023-3171 eap-7: heap exhaustion via deserialization
• BZ - 2241822 - CVE-2023-5685 xnio: StackOverflowException when the chain of notifier states becomes problematically big
• BZ - 2242521 - CVE-2023-39410 apache-avro: Apache Avro Java SDK: Memory when deserializing untrusted data in Avro Java SDK
• BZ - 2270732 - CVE-2024-28752 cxf-core: Apache CXF SSRF Vulnerability using the Aegis databinding
• BZ - 2316116 - CVE-2024-47561 apache-avro: Schema parsing may trigger Remote Code Execution (RCE)
• JBEAP-27708 - Tracker bug for the EAP 7.1.8 release for RHEL-7
• JBEAP-28086 - (7.1.z) Upgrade jboss-marshalling from 2.0.6.Final-redhat-00001 to 2.0.15.Final
• JBEAP-28130 - Update the minimum JDK version to 1.8 on CXF 3.1.16

CVEs

• CVE-2020-7238
• CVE-2020-28052
• CVE-2022-23221
• CVE-2022-34169
• CVE-2022-41853
• CVE-2022-46364
• CVE-2023-3171
• CVE-2023-5685
• CVE-2023-26464
• CVE-2023-39410
• CVE-2024-28752
• CVE-2024-47561

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_jboss_enterprise_application_platform/7.1
• https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_jboss_enterprise_application_platform/7.1/html-single/installation_guide/index