RHEL 7 : Red Hat CloudForms (RHSA-2018:1972)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 194115

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:1972 advisory.

- ansible-tower: Privilege escalation flaw allows for organization admins to obtain system privileges (CVE-2018-1101)

- ansible-tower: Remote code execution by users with access to define variables in job templates (CVE-2018-1104)

- python-paramiko: Authentication bypass in transport.py (CVE-2018-7750)

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 affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 194115

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-1972.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 4/27/2024

Updated: 4/27/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-7750

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ansible, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ansible-tower-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ansible-tower-setup, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cfme, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cfme-appliance, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cfme-gemset, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-paramiko, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-paramiko-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-ruby23-rubygem-json, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-ruby23-rubygem-json-doc

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: 6/25/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/13/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1101, CVE-2018-1104, CVE-2018-7750

CWE: 20, 266, 287

RHSA: 2018:1972

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