Important: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 security update

Synopsis

Important: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

A security update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform from the Customer Portal.

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 Wildfly.

This asynchronous patch is a security update for apache-cxf package in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1

Security Fix(es):

• apache-cxf: TLS hostname verification does not work correctly with com.sun.net.ssl.* (CVE-2018-8039)
  
• wildfly-core: Path traversal can allow the extraction of .war archives to write arbitrary files. (CVE-2018-10862)

Solution

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

The References section of this erratum contains a download link (you must log in to download the update).

The JBoss server process must be restarted for the update to take effect.

Affected Products

• JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Text-Only Advisories x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1593527 - CVE-2018-10862 wildfly-core: Path traversal can allow the extraction of .war archives to write arbitrary files (Zip Slip)
• BZ - 1595332 - CVE-2018-8039 apache-cxf: TLS hostname verification does not work correctly with com.sun.net.ssl.*

CVEs

• CVE-2018-8039
• CVE-2018-10862

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://access.redhat.com/jbossnetwork/restricted/listSoftware.html?product=appplatform&downloadType=securityPatches&version=7.1
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_jboss_enterprise_application_platform/?version=7.1/