RHCOS 4 : OpenShift Container Platform 4.16.5 (RHSA-2024:4858)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 311926

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat CoreOS host is missing one or more security updates for OpenShift Container Platform 4.16.5.

Description

The remote Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS 4 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:4858 advisory.

- go-retryablehttp: url might write sensitive information to log file (CVE-2024-6104)

- gorilla/schema: Potential memory exhaustion attack due to sparse slice deserialization (CVE-2024-37298)

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 4.16.5 packages based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:4858.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 311926

File Name: rhcos-RHSA-2024-4858.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 5/4/2026

Updated: 5/4/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-6104

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-docker, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-catatonit, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-remote, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8:coreos, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9:coreos, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-gvproxy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-plugins, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-tests

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/31/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/24/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-37298, CVE-2024-6104

CWE: 532, 770

RHSA: 2024:4858

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