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Posted on 06 November 2018
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Critical: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2.0 security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:3518-01
Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3518
Issue date: 2018-11-06
CVE Names: CVE-2018-14667
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1. Summary:
An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application
Platform 5.
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 is a platform for Java
applications based on the JBoss Application Server.
This asynchronous patch is a security update for the RichFaces package in
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2.
Security Fix(es):
* RichFaces: Expression Language injection via UserResource allows for
unauthenticated remote code execution (CVE-2018-14667)
See https://access.redhat.com/solutions/3660371 for specific information
regarding this flaw.
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.
Red Hat would like to thank Joao Filho Matos Figueiredo for reporting this
issue.
3. 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).
The JBoss server process must be restarted for the update to take effect.
4. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):
1639139 - CVE-2018-14667 RichFaces: Expression Language injection via UserResource allows for unauthenticated remote code execution
1640782 - Tracker bug for the EAP 5.2.0 release for RHEL-6.
5. References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-14667
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical
https://access.redhat.com/solutions/3660371
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.
