Important: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.2 security update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2019-14843   CVE-2019-14843   CVE-2019-14843  

Synopsis

Important: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.2 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.2 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7, and 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 7 is a platform for Java applications based on Wildfly.

This asynchronous patch is a security update for wildfly-security-manager package in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.2 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7, and 8.

Security Fix(es):

  • wildfly: wildfly-security-manager: security manager authorization bypass (CVE-2019-14843)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

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

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

For details about how to apply this update, see:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

  • JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.2 for RHEL 8 x86_64
  • JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.2 for RHEL 7 x86_64
  • JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.2 for RHEL 6 x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 1752980 - CVE-2019-14843 wildfly-security-manager: security manager authorization bypass

CVEs

References