RHCOS 3 : Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.2 (RHSA-2016:1064)

high Nessus Plugin ID 311952

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS 3 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2016:1064 advisory.

- 3: logs from a deleted namespace can be revealed if a new namespace with the same name is created (CVE-2016-2149)

- Privilege escalation when changing root password in sti builder image (CVE-2016-2160)

- haproxy: Setting cookie containing internal IP address of a pod (CVE-2016-3711)

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: High

ID: 311952

File Name: rhcos-RHSA-2016-1064.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: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-2160

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs-proxy-addr, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-clients-redistributable, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-dockerregistry, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-master, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-pod, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-sdn-ovs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs-openshift-auth-proxy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-tests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-recycle, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tuned-profiles-atomic-openshift-node, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-clients, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-node, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7:coreos

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: 5/12/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/9/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-2149, CVE-2016-2160, CVE-2016-3711

CWE: 200, 285

RHSA: 2016:1064

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