{ "document": { "aggregate_severity": { "namespace": "https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/", "text": "Critical" }, "category": "csaf_security_advisory", "csaf_version": "2.0", "distribution": { "text": "Copyright © Red Hat, Inc. All rights reserved.", "tlp": { "label": "WHITE", "url": "https://www.first.org/tlp/" } }, "lang": "en", "notes": [ { "category": "summary", "text": "An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.\n\nRed 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.", "title": "Topic" }, { "category": "general", "text": "Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is a platform for Java applications based on the JBoss Application Server.\n\nThis asynchronous patch is a security update for JBoss invoker in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2.0.\n\nSecurity Fix(es):\n\n* jbossas: Arbitrary code execution via unrestricted deserialization in ReadOnlyAccessFilter of HTTP Invoker. 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