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Posted on 10 September 2018
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Critical: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2 security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:2663-01
Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2663
Issue date: 2018-09-10
CVE Names: CVE-2018-12533
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1. Summary:
A security update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application
Platform from the Customer Portal.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Critical. 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.
2. Description:
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2 is a platform for Java
applications based on jbossas.
This asynchronous patch is a security update for RichFaces and Apache CXF
packages in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2.
Security Fix(es):
* Injection of arbitrary EL expressions allows remote code execution via
org.richfaces.renderkit.html.Paint2DResource. (CVE-2018-12533)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS
score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in
the References section.
3. Solution:
Before applying this update, back up your existing Red Hat JBoss Enterprise
Application Platform installation and deployed applications.
The JBoss server process must be restarted for the update to take effect.
For details on how to apply this update, refer to:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
4. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):
1584490 - CVE-2018-12533 RichFaces: Injection of arbitrary EL expressions allows remote code execution via org.richfaces.renderkit.html.Paint2DResource
5. References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12533
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical
https://access.redhat.com/jbossnetwork/restricted/listSoftware.html?product=appplatform&downloadType=securityPatches&version=5.2.0
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_jboss_enterprise_application_platform/5/
6. Contact:
The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/
Copyright 2018 Red Hat, Inc.
