RHCOS 4 : OpenShift Container Platform 4.9.59 (RHSA-2023:1524)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 189416

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat CoreOS host is missing a security update for OpenShift Container Platform 4.9.59.

Description

The remote Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS 4 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:1524 advisory.

- apache-commons-text: variable interpolation RCE (CVE-2022-42889)

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 RHCOS OpenShift Container Platform 4.9.59 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2023:1524.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 189416

File Name: rhcos-RHSA-2023-1524.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 1/24/2024

Updated: 5/4/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-42889

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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: 4/5/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/13/2022

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Apache Commons Text RCE)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-42889

CWE: 1188

RHSA: 2023:1524

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