RHEL 7 : Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise (RHSA-2016:1605)

high Nessus Plugin ID 119377

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

An update is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1 and Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.2.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update 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.

OpenShift Enterprise by Red Hat is the company's cloud computing Platform- as-a-Service (PaaS) solution designed for on-premise or private cloud deployments.

The logging auth proxy is a reverse proxy that authenticates requests against OpenShift, retrieving user information and setting the configured header with the appropriate details.

Security Fix(es) :

* A regular expression denial of service flaw was found in Negotiator.
An attacker able to make an application using Negotiator to perform matching using a specially crafted glob pattern could cause the application to consume an excessive amount of CPU. (CVE-2016-1000022)

* A regular expression denial of service flaw was found in Minimatch.
An attacker able to make an application using Minimatch to perform matching using a specially crafted glob pattern could cause the application to consume an excessive amount of CPU. (CVE-2016-1000023)

Refer to the changelog listed in the References section for a list of changes.

This update includes the following images :

openshift3/logging-auth-proxy:3.1.1-13 openshift3/logging-auth-proxy:3.2.1-5

All OpenShift Enterprise 3 users are advised to upgrade to the updated images.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1605

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-1000022

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-1000023

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 119377

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2016-1605.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/4/2018

Updated: 6/11/2020

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs-accepts, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs-express, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs-mime-db, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs-mime-types, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs-minimatch, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs-negotiator, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/11/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/17/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-1000022, CVE-2016-1000023

RHSA: 2016:1605