Issued:
2013-04-09
Updated:
2013-04-09

RHSA-2013:0726 - Important: JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 5.3.1 update

Synopsis

Important: JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 5.3.1 update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 5.3.1 roll up patch 1, which fixes multiple security issues and various bugs, is now available from the Red Hat Customer Portal.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

Description

JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform is the next-generation ESB and business process automation infrastructure. JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform allows IT to leverage existing (MoM and EAI), modern (SOA and BPM-Rules), and future (EDA and CEP) integration methodologies to dramatically improve business process execution speed and quality.

This roll up patch serves as a cumulative upgrade for JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 5.3.1. It includes various bug fixes. The following security issues are also fixed with this release:

If web services were deployed using Apache CXF with the WSS4JInInterceptor enabled to apply WS-Security processing, HTTP GET requests to these services were always granted access, without applying authentication checks. The URIMappingInterceptor is a legacy mechanism for allowing REST-like access (via GET requests) to simple SOAP services. A remote attacker could use this flaw to access the REST-like interface of a simple SOAP service using GET requests that bypass the security constraints applied by WSS4JInInterceptor. This flaw was only exploitable if WSS4JInInterceptor was used to apply WS-Security processing. Services that use WS-SecurityPolicy to apply security were not affected. (CVE-2012-5633)

It was found that Apache CXF was vulnerable to SOAPAction spoofing attacks under certain conditions. If web services were exposed via Apache CXF that use a unique SOAPAction for each service operation, then a remote attacker could perform SOAPAction spoofing to call a forbidden operation if it accepts the same parameters as an allowed operation. WS-Policy validation was performed against the operation being invoked, and an attack must pass validation to be successful. (CVE-2012-3451)

Multiple weaknesses were found in the JBoss Web DIGEST authentication implementation, effectively reducing the security normally provided by DIGEST authentication. A remote attacker could use these flaws to perform replay attacks in some circumstances. (CVE-2012-5885, CVE-2012-5886, CVE-2012-5887)

Red Hat would like to thank the Apache CXF project for reporting CVE-2012-3451.

Warning: Before applying the update, back up your existing JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform installation (including its databases, applications, configuration files, and so on).

All users of JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 5.3.1 as provided from the Red Hat Customer Portal are advised to apply this roll up patch.

Solution

The References section of this erratum contains a download link (you must log in to download the update). Before applying the update, back up your existing JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform installation (including its databases, applications, configuration files, and so on).

Note that it is recommended to halt the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform server by stopping the JBoss Application Server process before installing this update, and then after installing the update, restart the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform server by starting the JBoss Application Server process.

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat JBoss MiddlewareText-Only Advisoriesx86_64

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