Important: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 security update

Topic

A security update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.

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 Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.

Security Fix(es):

• log4j: SQL injection in Log4j 1.x when application is configured to use JDBCAppender (CVE-2022-23305)
• log4j: Unsafe deserialization flaw in Chainsaw log viewer (CVE-2022-23307)
• log4j: Remote code execution in Log4j 1.x when application is configured to use JMSAppender (CVE-2021-4104)
• log4j: Remote code execution in Log4j 1.x when application is configured to use JMSSink (CVE-2022-23302)

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

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

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

Affected Products

• JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 7 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2031667 - CVE-2021-4104 log4j: Remote code execution in Log4j 1.x when application is configured to use JMSAppender
• BZ - 2041949 - CVE-2022-23302 log4j: Remote code execution in Log4j 1.x when application is configured to use JMSSink
• BZ - 2041959 - CVE-2022-23305 log4j: SQL injection in Log4j 1.x when application is configured to use JDBCAppender
• BZ - 2041967 - CVE-2022-23307 log4j: Unsafe deserialization flaw in Chainsaw log viewer

CVEs

• CVE-2021-4104
• CVE-2022-23302
• CVE-2022-23305
• CVE-2022-23307

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_jboss_enterprise_application_platform/7.4/
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_jboss_enterprise_application_platform/7.4/html-single/installation_guide/