RHSA-2026:18059 - Security Advisory

Topic

A security update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. 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 8 is a platform for Java applications based on the WildFly application runtime. This release of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.1.6 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.1.5, and includes bug fixes and enhancements. See the Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.1.6 Release Notes for information about the most significant bug fixes and enhancements included in this release.

Security Fix(es):

• bcpg-fips: unbounded PGP AEAD chunk size leads to pre-auth resource exhaustion (CVE-2026-3505)
• bcpkix-fips: PKIX draft CompositeVerifier accepts empty signature sequence as valid (CVE-2026-5588)
• bcprov-jdk18on: LDAP injection vulnerability in LDAPStoreHelper.java (CVE-2026-0636)
• bcprov-jdk18on: GOSTCTR implementation unable to process more than 255 blocks correctly (CVE-2025-14813)
• bcprov-jdk12: private key leakage via non-constant time comparisons (CVE-2026-5598)
• netty-codec-http: Netty: Denial of Service via HTTP/2 CONTINUATION frame flood (CVE-2026-33871)
• netty-codec-http: Netty: Request smuggling via incorrect parsing of HTTP/1.1 chunked transfer encoding extension values (CVE-2026-33870)
• artemis-server: Apache Artemis, Apache ActiveMQ Artemis: Message injection and exfiltration due to missing authentication (CVE-2026-27446)
• org.hibernate.orm/hibernate-c3p0: c3p0: Arbitrary Code Execution via deserialization of crafted objects (CVE-2026-27830)
• org.keycloak-keycloak-parent: Minimatch: Denial of Service via catastrophic backtracking in glob expressions (CVE-2026-27904)
• mchange-commons-java: mchange-commons-java: Arbitrary code execution via JNDI dereferencing of crafted objects (CVE-2026-27727)
• io.hawt-project: minimatch: Denial of Service via specially crafted glob patterns (CVE-2026-26996)
• wildfly-elytron-integration: Wildfly Elytron Brute Force Attack via CLI (CVE-2025-23368)

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, make sure 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 Text-Only Advisories x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2337621 - CVE-2025-23368 org.wildfly.core:wildfly-elytron-integration: Wildfly Elytron Brute Force Attack via CLI
• BZ - 2441268 - CVE-2026-26996 minimatch: minimatch: Denial of Service via specially crafted glob patterns
• BZ - 2442671 - CVE-2026-27727 com.mchange/mchange-commons-java: mchange-commons-java: Arbitrary code execution via JNDI dereferencing of crafted objects
• BZ - 2442908 - CVE-2026-27830 c3p0: c3p0: Arbitrary Code Execution via deserialization of crafted objects
• BZ - 2442922 - CVE-2026-27904 minimatch: Minimatch: Denial of Service via catastrophic backtracking in glob expressions
• BZ - 2444320 - CVE-2026-27446 org.apache.artemis:artemis-server: org.apache.activemq:artemis-server: Apache Artemis, Apache ActiveMQ Artemis: Message injection and exfiltration due to missing authentication
• BZ - 2452453 - CVE-2026-33870 io.netty/netty-codec-http: Netty: Request smuggling via incorrect parsing of HTTP/1.1 chunked transfer encoding extension values
• BZ - 2452456 - CVE-2026-33871 netty: Netty: Denial of Service via HTTP/2 CONTINUATION frame flood
• BZ - 2458634 - CVE-2026-5588 bouncycastle: BC-JAVA: PKIX draft CompositeVerifier accepts empty signature sequence as valid
• BZ - 2458635 - CVE-2026-5598 bouncycastle: BC-JAVA: private key leakage via non-constant time comparisons
• BZ - 2458638 - CVE-2026-3505 bouncycastle: BC-JAVA: unbounded PGP AEAD chunk size leads to pre-auth resource exhaustion
• BZ - 2458640 - CVE-2025-14813 bouncycastle: BC-JAVA: GOSTCTR implementation unable to process more than 255 blocks correctly
• BZ - 2458641 - CVE-2026-0636 bouncycastle: BC-JAVA: LDAP injection vulnerability in LDAPStoreHelper.java
• JBEAP-31314 - (8.1.z) Upgrade OpenSSL Natives from 2.2.0.Final-redhat-00002 to 2.3.0.Final-redhat-00001
• JBEAP-31468 - [GSS](8.1.z) Upgrade WildFly Http Client from 2.1.3.Final-redhat-00001 to 2.1.4.Final-redhat-00001
• JBEAP-31868 - (8.1.z) Upgrade WildFly Core from 27.1.6.Final-redhat-00001 to 27.1.7.Final-redhat-00001
• JBEAP-31874 - (8.1.z) Upgrade HAL from 3.7.16.Final-redhat-00001 to version 3.7.17.Final-redhat-00001
• JBEAP-32025 - (8.1.z) Upgrade JBoss EAP to 8.1.1.GA-redhat-00013 in 8.1 Update 6
• JBEAP-32028 - (8.1.z) Upgrade jboss metadata from 16.0.0.Final-redhat-00001 to 16.1.0.Final-redhat-00001
• JBEAP-32064 - (8.1.z) Upgrade HAL from 3.7.17.Final-redhat-00001 to 3.7.18.Final-redhat-00001
• JBEAP-32078 - [GSS](8.1.z) Upgrade hibernate ORM from 6.6.42.Final-redhat-00001 to 6.6.44.Final-redhat-00001
• JBEAP-32084 - (8.1.z) Upgrade JBoss EAP to 8.1.1.GA-redhat-00015 in 8.1 Update 6
• JBEAP-32123 - JBoss EAP 8.1 Update 6 Release
• JBEAP-32209 - (8.1.z) Upgrade WildFly Core from 27.1.7.Final-redhat-00001 to 27.1.8.Final-redhat-00001
• JBEAP-32212 - (8.1.z) Update EAP channel to use wildfly-ee-feature-pack-product-conf x.x.x in EAP 8.1 Update 6
• JBEAP-32266 - (8.1.z) Upgrade hibernate ORM from 6.6.44.Final-redhat-00001 to 6.6.45.Final-redhat-00001
• JBEAP-32293 - (8.1.z) Upgrade Artemis to 2.40.0.redhat-00012
• JBEAP-32295 - (8.1.z) Upgrade HAL from 3.7.17.Final-redhat-00001 to version 3.7.19.Final-redhat-00001
• JBEAP-32339 - (8.1.z) Upgrade JBoss EAP to 8.1.1.GA-redhat-00016 in 8.1 Update 6
• JBEAP-32350 - (8.1.z) Upgrade WildFly OpenSSL from 2.2.5.Final-redhat-00002 to 2.3.0.Final-redhat-00001
• JBEAP-32415 - (8.1.z) Upgrade WildFly Core from 27.1.8.Final-redhat-00001 to 27.1.9.Final-redhat-00001
• JBEAP-32481 - (8.1.z) Upgrade yasson from 3.0.4.redhat-00006 to 3.0.4.redhat-00007
• JBEAP-29032 - [GSS](8.1.z) JBoss EAP 8 overrides custom favicon.ico during RPM update
• JBEAP-32486 - (8.1.z) Upgrade JBoss EAP to 8.1.1.GA-redhat-00017 in 8.1 Update 6
• JBEAP-32544 - (8.1.z) Upgrade WildFly Core from 27.1.9.Final-redhat-00001 to 27.1.9.Final-redhat-00002
• JBEAP-32601 - (8.1.z) Upgrade netty from 4.1.130.Final-redhat-00001 to 4.1.132.Final-redhat-00001
• JBEAP-32687 - (8.1.z) Upgrade hibernate ORM from 6.6.45.Final-redhat-00001 to 6.6.48.Final-redhat-00001
• JBEAP-32755 - [GSS](8.1.z) HHH-20287 DataException ( Parameter is not set) when updating only the version of an Entity with a PartitionKey #12093
• JBEAP-32773 - [PST](8.1.z) Upgrade bouncycastle from 1.83.0.redhat-00001 to 1.84+

CVEs

• CVE-2025-14813
• CVE-2025-23368
• CVE-2026-0636
• CVE-2026-3505
• CVE-2026-5588
• CVE-2026-5598
• CVE-2026-26996
• CVE-2026-27446
• CVE-2026-27727
• CVE-2026-27830
• CVE-2026-27904
• CVE-2026-33870
• CVE-2026-33871

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_jboss_enterprise_application_platform/8.1
• https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_jboss_enterprise_application_platform/8.1/html/release_notes_for_red_hat_jboss_enterprise_application_platform_8.1/index
• https://access.redhat.com/articles/7137769