Moderate: Red Hat support for Spring Boot 2.7.2.SP1 security update

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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 support for Spring Boot provides an application platform that reduces the complexity of developing and operating applications (monoliths and microservices) for OpenShift as a containerized platform.

This release of Red Hat support for Spring Boot 2.7.2.SP1 serves as a replacement for Red Hat support for Spring Boot 2.7.2, and includes security, bug fixes, and enhancements. For more information, see the release notes linked to in the References section.

Security Fix(es):

• tomcat: local privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2022-23181)

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 the update, back up your existing installation, including all applications, configuration files, databases and database settings, and so on.

The References section of this erratum contains a download link for the update. You must be logged in to download the update.

Affected Products

• Red Hat Openshift Application Runtimes Text-Only Advisories x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2047417 - CVE-2022-23181 tomcat: local privilege escalation vulnerability

CVEs

• CVE-2022-23181

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/jbossnetwork/restricted/listSoftware.html?downloadType=distributions&product=catRhoar.spring.boot&version=2.7.2.SP1
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_support_for_spring_boot/2.7/html/release_notes_for_spring_boot_2.7/index