RHSA-2019:2974

Vulnerability from csaf_redhat - Published: 2019-10-07 17:19 - Updated: 2026-03-18 01:46
Summary
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.2.4 security update
Severity
Important
Notes
Topic: 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 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 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 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.
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 Wildfly Security Manager, running under JDK 11 or 8, that authorized requests for any requester. This flaw could be used by a malicious app deployed on the app server to access unauthorized information and possibly conduct further attacks.

CWE-592 - CWE-592
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). https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2974
Workaround This flaw only affects the Security Manager running under JDK 11 or 8. To mitigate exposure to this flaw, do not run under those JDK versions.

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