RHSA-2020:2783
Vulnerability from csaf_redhat - Published: 2020-07-01 11:21 - Updated: 2026-02-23 19:17Summary
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.23 security update
Severity
Important
Notes
Topic: An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.
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.
Details: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is a platform for Java applications based on the JBoss Application Server.
This release of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.23 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.22, and includes bug fixes and enhancements, which are documented in the Release Notes document listed in the References section.
Security Fix(es):
* jbossweb: tomcat: Apache Tomcat AJP File Read/Inclusion Vulnerability (CVE-2020-1938)
* JBoss EAP: Vault system property security attribute value is revealed on CLI 'reload' command (CVE-2019-14885)
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.
All users of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 are advised to upgrade to these updated packages.
Terms of Use: This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original.
A flaw was found in the JBoss EAP Vault system. Confidential information of the system property’s security attribute value is revealed in the JBoss EAP log file when executing a JBoss CLI 'reload' command. This flaw can lead to the exposure of confidential information.
5.4 (Medium)
Vendor Fix
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).
You must restart the JBoss server process for the update to take effect.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:2783
CVE-2020-1938 is a file read/inclusion vulnerability in the AJP connector in Apache Tomcat. This is enabled by default with a default configuration port of 8009. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to read web application files from a vulnerable server. In instances where the vulnerable server allows file uploads, an attacker could upload malicious JavaServer Pages (JSP) code within a variety of file types and trigger this vulnerability to gain remote code execution (RCE).
7.6 (High)
Vendor Fix
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).
You must restart the JBoss server process for the update to take effect.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:2783
Workaround
Please refer to the Red Hat knowledgebase article: https://access.redhat.com/solutions/4851251
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Nomenclature
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- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
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