RHEL 7 / 8 : OpenShift Container Platform 4.7.13 (RHSA-2021:2122)

high Nessus Plugin ID 165147

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for OpenShift Container Platform 4.7.13.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 / 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2021:2122 advisory.

- golang: data race in certain net/http servers including ReverseProxy can lead to DoS (CVE-2020-15586)

- golang: ReadUvarint and ReadVarint can read an unlimited number of bytes from invalid inputs (CVE-2020-16845)

- jenkins-2-plugins/config-file-provider: Does not configure its XML parser to prevent XML external entity (XXE) attacks. (CVE-2021-21642)

- jenkins-2-plugins/config-file-provider: Does not correctly perform permission checks in several HTTP endpoints. (CVE-2021-21643)

- jenkins-2-plugins/config-file-provider: does not require POST requests for an HTTP endpoint, resulting in a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability. (CVE-2021-21644)

- jenkins-2-plugins/config-file-provider: Does not perform permission checks in several HTTP endpoints.
(CVE-2021-21645)

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 RHEL OpenShift Container Platform 4.7.13 packages based on the guidance in RHSA-2021:2122.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?65563ca8

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:2122

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1856953

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1867099

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1952146

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1952148

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1952151

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1952152

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1964770

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 165147

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2021-2122.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/15/2022

Updated: 4/28/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-21644

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-21642

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cri-o, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cri-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jenkins-2-plugins, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:redhat-release-coreos

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: 6/1/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/17/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-15586, CVE-2020-16845, CVE-2021-21642, CVE-2021-21643, CVE-2021-21644, CVE-2021-21645

CWE: 281, 352, 362, 611, 835

RHSA: 2021:2122