RHSA-2025:9583 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 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 7.3.14 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3.13, and includes bug fixes and enhancements. See the Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3.14 Release Notes for information about the most significant bug fixes and enhancements included in this release.

Security Fix(es):

• undertow: unrestricted request storage leads to memory exhaustion [eap-7.3.z] (CVE-2023-1973)
• undertow: Infinite loop in SslConduit during close [eap-7.3.z] (CVE-2023-1108)
• undertow: OutOfMemoryError due to @MultipartConfig handling [eap-7.3.z] (CVE-2023-3223)
• undertow: Out-of-memory Error after several closed connections with wildfly-http-client protocol [eap-7.3.z] (CVE-2024-1635)
• keycloak: org.keycloak.protocol.oidc: unvalidated cross-origin messages in checkLoginIframe leads to DDoS [eap-7.3.z] (CVE-2024-1249)
• undertow: Server identity in https connection is not checked by the undertow client [eap-7.3.z] (CVE-2022-4492)
• undertow: potential security issue in flow control over HTTP/2 may lead to DOS(incomplete fix for CVE-2021-3629) [eap-7.3.z] (CVE-2022-1259)
• undertow: Large AJP request may cause DoS [eap-7.3.z] (CVE-2022-2053)
• undertow: AJP Request closes connection exceeding maxRequestSize [eap-7.3.z] (CVE-2023-5379)
• undertow: Double AJP response for 400 from EAP 7 results in CPING failures [eap-7.3.z] (CVE-2022-1319)
• eap: JBoss EAP: wildfly-elytron has a SSRF security issue [eap-7.3.z] (CVE-2024-1233)
• wildfly-elytron: possible timing attacks via use of unsafe comparator [eap-7.3.z] (CVE-2022-3143)
• netty-all: netty-codec: SnappyFrameDecoder doesn't restrict chunk length and may buffer skippable chunks in an unnecessary way [eap-7.3.z] (CVE-2021-37137)
• netty-all: netty-codec: Bzip2Decoder doesn't allow setting size restrictions for decompressed data [eap-7.3.z] (CVE-2021-37136)
• jackson-databind: denial of service via a large depth of nested objects [eap-7.3.z] (CVE-2020-36518)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgements, 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 7.3 EUS 7.3 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2004133 - CVE-2021-37136 netty-codec: Bzip2Decoder doesn't allow setting size restrictions for decompressed data
• BZ - 2004135 - CVE-2021-37137 netty-codec: SnappyFrameDecoder doesn't restrict chunk length and may buffer skippable chunks in an unnecessary way
• BZ - 2064698 - CVE-2020-36518 jackson-databind: denial of service via a large depth of nested objects
• BZ - 2072339 - CVE-2022-1259 undertow: potential security issue in flow control over HTTP/2 may lead to DOS(incomplete fix for CVE-2021-3629)
• BZ - 2073890 - CVE-2022-1319 undertow: Double AJP response for 400 from EAP 7 results in CPING failures
• BZ - 2095862 - CVE-2022-2053 undertow: Large AJP request may cause DoS
• BZ - 2124682 - CVE-2022-3143 wildfly-elytron: possible timing attacks via use of unsafe comparator
• BZ - 2153260 - CVE-2022-4492 undertow: Server identity in https connection is not checked by the undertow client
• BZ - 2174246 - CVE-2023-1108 Undertow: Infinite loop in SslConduit during close
• BZ - 2185662 - CVE-2023-1973 undertow: unrestricted request storage leads to memory exhaustion
• BZ - 2209689 - CVE-2023-3223 undertow: OutOfMemoryError due to @MultipartConfig handling
• BZ - 2242099 - CVE-2023-5379 undertow: AJP Request closes connection exceeding maxRequestSize
• BZ - 2262849 - CVE-2024-1233 JBoss EAP: wildfly-elytron has a SSRF security issue
• BZ - 2262918 - CVE-2024-1249 keycloak: org.keycloak.protocol.oidc: unvalidated cross-origin messages in checkLoginIframe leads to DDoS
• BZ - 2264928 - CVE-2024-1635 undertow: Out-of-memory Error after several closed connections with wildfly-http-client protocol
• JBEAP-29448 - Tracker bug for the EAP 7.3.14 release for RHEL-7

CVEs

• CVE-2020-36518
• CVE-2021-37136
• CVE-2021-37137
• CVE-2022-1259
• CVE-2022-1319
• CVE-2022-2053
• CVE-2022-3143
• CVE-2022-4492
• CVE-2023-1108
• CVE-2023-1973
• CVE-2023-3223
• CVE-2023-5379
• CVE-2024-1233
• CVE-2024-1635

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_jboss_enterprise_application_platform/7.3
• https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_jboss_enterprise_application_platform/7.3/html-single/installation_guide/index
• https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/RHSB-2023-003