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Rocky Linux 8 : prometheus-jmx-exporter (RLSA-2020:4807)

high Nessus Plugin ID 185080

Synopsis

The remote Rocky Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Rocky Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2020:4807 advisory.

 - The Alias feature in SnakeYAML before 1.26 allows entity expansion during a load operation, a related issue to CVE-2003-1564. (CVE-2017-18640)

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

Solution

Update the affected prometheus-jmx-exporter package.

See Also

https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2020:4807

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1785376

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 185080

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2020-4807.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 11/7/2023

Updated: 11/7/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-18640

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 7

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:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:prometheus-jmx-exporter, cpe:/o:rocky:linux:8

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/3/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/12/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-18640