RHSA-2021:2562: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.5.0 security release

Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.5.0 zip release is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and Windows. Red Hat Product Security has rated this release as having a security impact of Moderate. 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.Red Hat JBoss Web Server is a fully integrated and certified set of components for hosting Java web applications. It is comprised of the Apache Tomcat Servlet container, JBoss HTTP Connector (mod_cluster), the PicketLink Vault extension for Apache Tomcat, and the Tomcat Native library. This release of Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.5.0 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.4.2, and includes bug fixes, enhancements and component upgrades, which are documented in the Release Notes, linked to in the References. Security Fix(es):

• hibernate-core: SQL injection vulnerability when both hibernate.use_sql_comments and JPQL String literals are used (CVE-2020-25638)
• tomcat: Request mix-up with h2c (CVE-2021-25122)
• tomcat: Incomplete fix for CVE-2020-9484 (RCE via session persistence) (CVE-2021-25329) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section. Related CVEs:
• CVE-2020-25638: hibernate-core: SQL injection vulnerability when both hibernate.use_sql_comments and JPQL String literals are used
• CVE-2021-25122: tomcat: Request mix-up with h2c
• CVE-2021-25329: tomcat: Incomplete fix for CVE-2020-9484 (RCE via session persistence)