Issued:

2020-04-21

Updated:

2020-04-21

RHSA-2020:1521 - Important: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.3 release

Synopsis

Important: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.3 release

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.3.0 zip release for RHEL 6, RHEL 7, RHEL 8 and Microsoft Windows is available.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this release 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 Web Server is a fully integrated and certified set of components for hosting Java web applications. It is comprised of the Apache Tomcat Servlet container, JBoss HTTP Connector (mod_cluster), the PicketLink Vault extension for Apache Tomcat, and the Tomcat Native library.

This release of Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.3 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.2, and includes bug fixes, enhancements, and component upgrades, which are documented in the Release Notes, linked to in the References.

Security Fix(es):

• tomcat: Apache Tomcat AJP File Read/Inclusion Vulnerability (CVE-2020-1938)
• tomcat: local privilege escalation (CVE-2019-12418)
• tomcat: session fixation (CVE-2019-17563)
• tomcat: Regression in handling of Transfer-Encoding header allows for HTTP request smuggling (CVE-2019-17569)
• tomcat: Mishandling of Transfer-Encoding header allows for HTTP request smuggling (CVE-2020-1935)

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, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

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

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

Affected Products

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 1785699
• This content is not included.BZ - 1785711
• This content is not included.BZ - 1806398
• This content is not included.BZ - 1806835
• This content is not included.BZ - 1806849

CVEs

• CVE-2019-12418
• CVE-2019-17563
• CVE-2019-17569
• CVE-2020-1935
• CVE-2020-1938

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
• Offline Security Data data is available for integration with other systems. See Offline Security Data API to get started.