A Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 security update has been released.

RHSA-2020:4402-01: Important: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 security update

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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Important: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:4402-01
Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Advisory URL:   https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4402
Issue date: 2020-10-28
CVE Names: CVE-2020-25649
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1. Summary:

An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application
Platform 7.3.

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. Description:

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 is a platform for Java
applications based on the WildFly application runtime.

This asynchronous patch is a security update for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise
Application Platform 7.3.

Security Fix(es):

* jackson-databind: FasterXML DOMDeserializer insecure entity expansion is
vulnerable to XML external entity (CVE-2020-25649)

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.

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).

You must restart the JBoss server process for the update to take effect.

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

1887664 - CVE-2020-25649 jackson-databind: FasterXML DOMDeserializer insecure entity expansion is vulnerable to XML external entity (XXE)

5. References:

  https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-25649
  https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
  https://access.redhat.com/jbossnetwork/restricted/listSoftware.html?product=appplatform&downloadType=securityPatches&version=7.3
  https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_jboss_enterprise_application_platform/7.3/
  https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_jboss_enterprise_application_platform/7.3/html-single/installation_guide/

6. Contact:

The Red Hat security contact is . More contact
details at   https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

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