RHEL 7 : openshift (RHSA-2019:0741)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 124049

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

An update for Istio-Proxy is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh Tech Preview 0.9.0.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of important. 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 OpenShift Service Mesh is Red Hat's distribution of the Istio service mesh project, tailored for installation into an on-premise OpenShift Container Platform installation.

Security fix(es) :

* istio-proxy: CVE-2019-9901 istio/envoy: Path traversal via URL Patch manipulation in HTTP/1.x header. (CVE-2019-9900)

* istio-proxy: CVE-2019-9900 istio/envoy: Authorization bypass via null characters injection in HTTP/1.x (CVE-2019-9901)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score,acknowledgements, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

Update the affected servicemesh-proxy package.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0741

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-9900

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-9901

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 124049

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-0741.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/15/2019

Updated: 1/23/2020

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:servicemesh-proxy, 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: 4/10/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/25/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-9900, CVE-2019-9901

RHSA: 2019:0741