RHCOS 4 : OpenShift Container Platform 4.13.32 (RHSA-2024:0662)

high Nessus Plugin ID 190234

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat CoreOS host is missing a security update for OpenShift Container Platform 4.13.32.

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-2024:0662 advisory.

- runc is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers on Linux according to the OCI specification. In runc 1.1.11 and earlier, due to an internal file descriptor leak, an attacker could cause a newly-spawned container process (from runc exec) to have a working directory in the host filesystem namespace, allowing for a container escape by giving access to the host filesystem (attack 2). The same attack could be used by a malicious image to allow a container process to gain access to the host filesystem through runc run (attack 1). Variants of attacks 1 and 2 could be also be used to overwrite semi-arbitrary host binaries, allowing for complete container escapes (attack 3a and attack 3b). runc 1.1.12 includes patches for this issue. (CVE-2024-21626)

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 4.13.32 packages based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:0662.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-21626

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0662

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 190234

File Name: rhcos-RHSA-2024-0662.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/8/2024

Updated: 2/9/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-21626

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

Temporal Score: 8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/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:runc, 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: 2/7/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/31/2024

Exploitable With

Metasploit (runc (docker) File Descriptor Leak Privilege Escalation)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-21626

CWE: 200

IAVA: 2024-A-0071

RHSA: 2024:0662