RHEL 8 / 9 : OpenShift Container Platform 4.14.9 (RHSA-2024:0207)

high Nessus Plugin ID 189173

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for OpenShift Container Platform 4.14.9.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 / 9 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:0207 advisory.

- cri-o: Pods are able to break out of resource confinement on cgroupv2 (CVE-2023-6476)

- opentelemetry-go-contrib: DoS vulnerability in otelgrpc due to unbound cardinality metrics (CVE-2023-47108)

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 4.14.9 packages based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:0207.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?2f0e8119

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2251198

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2253994

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0207

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 189173

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-0207.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/18/2024

Updated: 4/29/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-6476

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:cri-o, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9

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: 1/17/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/10/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-47108, CVE-2023-6476

CWE: 770

RHSA: 2024:0207