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Posted on 17 May 2018
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Critical: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2 security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:1608-01
Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1608
Issue date: 2018-05-17
CVE Names: CVE-2017-12149
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1. Summary:
An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application
Platform.
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 JBoss invoker in Red Hat
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2.0.
Security Fix(es):
* jbossas: Arbitrary code execution via unrestricted deserialization in
ReadOnlyAccessFilter of HTTP Invoker. (CVE-2017-12149)
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 F M 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).
4. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):
1486220 - CVE-2017-12149 jbossas: Arbitrary code execution via unrestricted deserialization in ReadOnlyAccessFilter of HTTP Invoker.
5. References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-12149
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/
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.
