Issued:
2020-10-28
Updated:
2020-10-28

RHSA-2020:4401 - Important: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 security update

Synopsis

Important: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7, and 8.

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 7.3 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7, and 8.

Security Fix(es):

  • jackson-databind: FasterXML DOMDeserializer insecure entity expansion is vulnerable to XML external entity (CVE-2020-25649)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, see 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.

You must restart the JBoss server process for the update to take effect.

For details about how to apply this update, see: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform7.4x86_64
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform7.4x86_64
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform7.3x86_64
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform7.3x86_64
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform7.3x86_64

Updated Packages

  • eap7-jackson-databind-2.10.4-1.redhat_00002.1.el6eap.src.rpm
  • eap7-jackson-databind-2.10.4-1.redhat_00002.1.el7eap.noarch.rpm
  • eap7-jackson-databind-2.10.4-1.redhat_00002.1.el7eap.src.rpm
  • eap7-jackson-databind-2.10.4-1.redhat_00002.1.el8eap.noarch.rpm
  • eap7-jackson-databind-2.10.4-1.redhat_00002.1.el6eap.noarch.rpm
  • eap7-jackson-databind-2.10.4-1.redhat_00002.1.el8eap.src.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information