RHSA-2020:1521: Important: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.3 release

First published: Tue Apr 21 2020(Updated: )

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.<br>This release of Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.3 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.2, and includes bug fixes, enhancements, and component<br>upgrades, which are documented in the Release Notes, linked to in the<br>References.<br>Security Fix(es):<br><li> tomcat: Apache Tomcat AJP File Read/Inclusion Vulnerability (CVE-2020-1938)</li> <li> tomcat: local privilege escalation (CVE-2019-12418)</li> <li> tomcat: session fixation (CVE-2019-17563)</li> <li> tomcat: Regression in handling of Transfer-Encoding header allows for HTTP request smuggling (CVE-2019-17569)</li> <li> tomcat: Mishandling of Transfer-Encoding header allows for HTTP request smuggling (CVE-2020-1935)</li> For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS<br>score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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