RHEL 8 : Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 1.0 servicemesh-proxy (RHSA-2020:2864)

high Nessus Plugin ID 138185

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:2864 advisory.

- envoy: Resource exhaustion when proxying HTTP/2 requests or responses with small data frames (CVE-2020-12603)

- envoy: Resource exhaustion via HTTP/2 client requests with large payloads and improper stream windows (CVE-2020-12604)

- envoy: Resource exhaustion when processing HTTP/1.1 headers with long field names (CVE-2020-12605)

- envoy: Resource exhaustion when accepting too many connections (CVE-2020-8663)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected servicemesh-proxy package.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-8663

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-12603

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-12604

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-12605

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:2864

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1844251

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1844252

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1844254

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1844255

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 138185

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-2864.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/7/2020

Updated: 1/23/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

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 Score Source: CVE-2020-8663

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: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:servicemesh-proxy

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: 7/7/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/1/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-12603, CVE-2020-12604, CVE-2020-12605, CVE-2020-8663

CWE: 400

RHSA: 2020:2864