Low: Red Hat Process Automation Manager 7.12.1 security update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-22965  

Synopsis

Low: Red Hat Process Automation Manager 7.12.1 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Low

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat Process Automation Manager.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. 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 Process Automation Manager is an open source business process management suite that combines process management and decision service management and enables business and IT users to create, manage, validate, and deploy process applications and decision services.

This asynchronous security patch is an update to Red Hat Process Automation Manager 7.

Security Fix(es):

  • spring-webmvc: spring-framework: RCE via Data Binding on JDK 9+ (CVE-2022-22965)

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

A Spring MVC or Spring WebFlux application running on JDK 9 and above may be vulnerable to remote code execution (RCE) via data binding. The specific exploit requires the application to run on Tomcat as a WAR deployment.

This release upgrades Spring to 5.3.18 and Spring Boot to 2.6.6 which fixes the Spring MVC and WebFlux jars.

For on-premise installations, before applying the update, back up your existing installation, including all applications, configuration files, databases and database settings, and so on.

It is recommended to halt the server by stopping the JBoss Application Server process before installing this update; after installing the update, restart the server by starting the JBoss Application Server process.

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

Affected Products

  • Red Hat JBoss Middleware Text-Only Advisories for MIDDLEWARE 1 x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 2070348 - CVE-2022-22965 spring-framework: RCE via Data Binding on JDK 9+