RHCOS 4 : OpenShift Container Platform 4.14.4 (RHSA-2023:7473)

high Nessus Plugin ID 189458

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat CoreOS host is missing one or more security updates for OpenShift Container Platform 4.14.4.

Description

The remote Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS 4 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:7473 advisory.

- python-werkzeug: high resource usage when parsing multipart form data with many fields (CVE-2023-25577)

- haproxy: Proxy forwards malformed empty Content-Length headers (CVE-2023-40225)

- python-werkzeug: high resource consumption leading to denial of service (CVE-2023-46136)

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 4.14.4 packages based on the guidance in RHSA-2023:7473.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 189458

File Name: rhcos-RHSA-2023-7473.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

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: Low

Score: 3.8

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-40225

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:haproxy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-werkzeug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-werkzeug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:haproxy26, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8:coreos, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9: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: 11/29/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/14/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-25577, CVE-2023-40225, CVE-2023-46136

CWE: 20, 407, 770

RHSA: 2023:7473

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