The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 / 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:0045 advisory.

    Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is Red Hat's cloud computing     Kubernetes application platform solution designed for on-premise or private     cloud deployments.

    This advisory contains the RPM packages for Red Hat OpenShift Container     Platform 4.16.0. See the following advisory for the container images for     this release:

    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0041

    Security Fix(es):

    * dnspython: denial of service in stub resolver (CVE-2023-29483)
    * golang: net/http/cookiejar: incorrect forwarding of sensitive headers and     cookies on HTTP redirect (CVE-2023-45289)
    * golang: net/http: memory exhaustion in Request.ParseMultipartForm     (CVE-2023-45290)
    * containers/image: digest type does not guarantee valid type     (CVE-2024-3727)
    * golang: crypto/x509: Verify panics on certificates with an unknown public     key algorithm (CVE-2024-24783)
    * golang: net/mail: comments in display names are incorrectly handled     (CVE-2024-24784)
    * golang: html/template: errors returned from MarshalJSON methods may break     template escaping (CVE-2024-24785)
    * golang-protobuf: encoding/protojson, internal/encoding/json: infinite     loop in protojson.Unmarshal when unmarshaling certain forms of invalid JSON     (CVE-2024-24786)
    * jose: resource exhaustion (CVE-2024-28176)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS     score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE     page(s) listed in the References section.

    All OpenShift Container Platform 4.16 users are advised to upgrade to these     updated packages and images when they are available in the appropriate     release channel. To check for available updates, use the OpenShift CLI (oc)     or web console. Instructions for upgrading a cluster are available at     https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.16/updating/updating_a_cluster/updating-cluster-cli.html

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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RHEL 8 / 9 : OpenShift Container Platform 4.16.0 (RHSA-2024:0045)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 201091

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Version 1.4 Dec 10, 2025, 9:29 AM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 score" set to 5.9) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H") CVSSv3 score source (changed from "CVE-2024-3727" to "CVE-2024-28176") CVSSv3 severity (based on CVE-2024-28176, severity decreased from "High" to "Medium") Plugin Feed: 202512100929
Version 1.2 Nov 8, 2024, 8:20 AM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411080820
Version 1.1 Jun 27, 2024, 6:23 PM New Plugin Feed: 202406271823