Important: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.2 security update

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 the WildFly application runtime.

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

Security Fix(es):

• infinispan-core: infinispan: invokeAccessibly method from ReflectionUtil class allows to invoke private methods (CVE-2019-10174)
  
• jsf-impl: mojarra: Path traversal in ResourceManager.java:getLocalePrefix() via the loc parameter (CVE-2018-14371)
  

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, see 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.

You must restart the JBoss server process 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 - 1607709 - CVE-2018-14371 mojarra: Path traversal in ResourceManager.java:getLocalePrefix() via the loc parameter
• BZ - 1703469 - CVE-2019-10174 infinispan: invokeAccessibly method from ReflectionUtil class allows to invoke private methods

CVEs

• CVE-2018-14371
• CVE-2019-10174

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_jboss_enterprise_application_platform/7.2/
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_jboss_enterprise_application_platform/7.2/html-single/installation_guide/