Issued:

2021-11-15

Updated:

2025-11-10

RHSA-2021:4679 - Moderate: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.2 security update

Synopsis

Moderate: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.2 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

A security update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.

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 JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 is a platform for Java applications based on the WildFly application runtime.

This release of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.2 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.1, and includes bug fixes and enhancements. See the Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.2 Release Notes for information about the most significant bug fixes and enhancements included in this release.

Security Fix(es):

• undertow: potential security issue in flow control over HTTP/2 may lead to DOS (CVE-2021-3629)

• wildfly: incorrect JBOSS_LOCAL_USER challenge location may lead to giving access to all the local users (CVE-2021-3717)

• mina-sshd-core: Memory leak denial of service in Apache Mina SSHD Server (CVE-2021-30129)

• jsoup: Crafted input may cause the jsoup HTML and XML parser to get stuck (CVE-2021-37714)

• resteasy: Error message exposes endpoint class information (CVE-2021-20289)

• xmlsec: xml-security: XPath Transform abuse allows for information disclosure (CVE-2021-40690)

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, back up your existing Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform installation and deployed applications.

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

Affected Products

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 1935927
• This content is not included.BZ - 1977362
• This content is not included.BZ - 1981527
• This content is not included.BZ - 1991305
• This content is not included.BZ - 1995259
• This content is not included.BZ - 2011190
• This content is not included.JBEAP-21308
• This content is not included.JBEAP-22208
• This content is not included.JBEAP-22213
• This content is not included.JBEAP-22254
• This content is not included.JBEAP-22255
• This content is not included.JBEAP-22344
• This content is not included.JBEAP-22347
• This content is not included.JBEAP-22365
• This content is not included.JBEAP-22367
• This content is not included.JBEAP-22435
• This content is not included.JBEAP-22462
• This content is not included.JBEAP-22487
• This content is not included.JBEAP-22493
• This content is not included.JBEAP-22494
• This content is not included.JBEAP-22500
• This content is not included.JBEAP-22504
• This content is not included.JBEAP-22515
• This content is not included.JBEAP-22517
• This content is not included.JBEAP-22522

CVEs

• CVE-2021-3629
• CVE-2021-3717
• CVE-2021-20289
• CVE-2021-30129
• CVE-2021-37714
• CVE-2021-40690

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• This content is not included.This content is not included.https://access.redhat.com/jbossnetwork/restricted/listSoftware.html?downloadType=securityPatches&product=appplatform&version=7.4
• https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_jboss_enterprise_application_platform/7.4
• https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_jboss_enterprise_application_platform/7.4/html-single/installation_guide/index

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.