We are happy to announce that cPanel, L.L.C. has released an update for EasyApache 4! Take a look at some highlights below, and then join us on Discord or Reddit to talk about this update and much more.

2021-3-24

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ea-profiles-cpanel

• EA-9481: Update Phusion passenger version.

ea-nginx

• EA-9652: Invoke whmapi1 with full cPanel path.
• ZC-8591: Add /Microsoft-Server-ActiveSync proxy.
• EA-9638: Update ea-nginx to 1.19.8, drop 1.19.7.
• ZC-8541: Add sub command to scripts/ea-nginx to configure caching.

scl-sourceguardian

• EA-9650: Update SourceGuardian to 12.0 to support PHP 8.0

ea-ruby27-meta

• EA-9609: Update ea-ruby27 to 2.7.2, drop 2.7.1.
• EA-9609: Install racc and irb and require ruby-devel for update to 2.7.2.

ea-ruby27-rubygem-rack

• EA-9609: Update global version for ea-ruby27 2.7.2.

ea-ruby27

• EA-9609: Update ea-ruby27 to 2.7.2, drop 2.7.1.

ea-ruby27-rubygem-nokogiri

• EA-9607: Update Version to be compatible with tooling.
• EA-9605: Update ea-ruby27-rubygem-nokogiri to 1.11.1, drop 1.10.9.

ea-ruby27-passenger

• EA-9604: Update ea-ruby27-passenger to 6.0.7, drop 6.0.6.

ea-ruby27-libuv

• EA-9603: Update ea-ruby27-libuv to 1.41.0, drop 1.39.0.

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This release includes a security patch that has been issued a fix for a CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures), the details of which are included below.

SUMMARY
cPanel, L.L.C. has updated RPMs for EasyApache 4 with Ruby version 2.7.2. This release addresses vulnerabilities related to CVE-2020-25613. We strongly encourage all Ruby users to update to version 2.7.2.
 
 
AFFECTED VERSIONS
All versions of Ruby through 2.7.1.

 
SECURITY RATING
The National Vulnerability Database (NIST) has given the following severity ratings to these CVEs:
 

CVE-2020-25613 – HIGH

Ruby 2.7.2
Fixed bug related to CVE-2020-25613.

SOLUTION
cPanel, L.L.C. has released updated RPMs for EasyApache 4 on March 24, 2021, with an updated version of Ruby 2.7.2. Unless you have enabled automatic RPM updates in your cron, update your system with either yum update or WHM’s Run System Update interface.

 
REFERENCES
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-25613
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2020/10/02/ruby-2-7-2-released/

You can download the signed CVE file here:

More Information

Information about all releases this year can be found in the EasyApache 4 Changelog and the EasyApache 4 Release Notes. To ensure that you receive up-to-date product news from cPanel, we encourage you to subscribe to the Product and Security updates mailing list on our website. You can also sign up for our EasyApache Development and EasyApache Production lists to see when updates are pushed for our RPMs, letting you know ahead of time what will be updated in each EasyApache release.