N/A - RHSA-2019:2973

Problem Description:

An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.2 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.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.2 for RHEL 6 Server - noarch Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.2 for RHEL 7 Server - noarch Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.2 for RHEL 8 - noarch

3. Description:

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 is a platform for Java applications based on Wildfly.

This asynchronous patch is a security update for wildfly-security-manager package in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.2 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7, and 8.

Security Fix(es):

* wildfly: wildfly-security-manager: security manager authorization bypass (CVE-2019-14843)

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.

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

5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

1752980 - CVE-2019-14843 wildfly-security-manager: security manager authorization bypass