Moderate: jboss-ec2-eap security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Synopsis

Moderate: jboss-ec2-eap security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update for jboss-ec2-eap is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

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

The jboss-ec2-eap packages provide scripts for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform running on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).

With this update, the jboss-ec2-eap package has been updated to ensure compatibility with Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.16.

Security Fix(es):

• It was found that the log file viewer in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application 6 and 7 allows arbitrary file read to authenticated user via path traversal. (CVE-2017-2595)
  
• It was discovered that a malicious web application could bypass a configured SecurityManager via a Tomcat utility method that was accessible to web applications. (CVE-2016-5018)
  
• It was discovered that a malicious web application could bypass a configured SecurityManager via manipulation of the configuration parameters for the JSP Servlet. (CVE-2016-6796)

Solution

Before applying this update, back up your existing Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform installation and deployed applications.

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 for RHEL 6 x86_64
• JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 for RHEL 6 i386
• JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 for RHEL 6 x86_64
• JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 for RHEL 6 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 1390515 - CVE-2016-6796 tomcat: security manager bypass via JSP Servlet config parameters
• BZ - 1390525 - CVE-2016-5018 tomcat: security manager bypass via IntrospectHelper utility function
• BZ - 1413028 - CVE-2017-2595 wildfly: Arbitrary file read via path traversal

CVEs

• CVE-2016-5018
• CVE-2016-6796
• CVE-2017-2595

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en/red-hat-jboss-enterprise-application-platform/?version=6.4