RHCOS 4 : OpenShift Container Platform 4.11.43 (RHSA-2023:3541)

high Nessus Plugin ID 189413

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat CoreOS host is missing one or more security updates for OpenShift Container Platform 4.11.43.

Description

The remote Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS 4 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:3541 advisory.

- cri-o: incorrect handling of the supplementary groups (CVE-2022-2995)

- flask: Possible disclosure of permanent session cookie due to missing Vary: Cookie header (CVE-2023-30861)

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 RHCOS OpenShift Container Platform 4.11.43 packages based on the guidance in RHSA-2023:3541.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?25244673

http://www.nessus.org/u?76855fc1

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2121632

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:3541

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 189413

File Name: rhcos-RHSA-2023-3541.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/24/2024

Updated: 5/5/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-30861

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 7.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cri-o, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-flask, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-flask-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-flask, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8:coreos

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/14/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/19/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-2995, CVE-2023-30861

CWE: 284, 488

RHSA: 2023:3541