RHCOS 3 : openshift (RHSA-2015:1736)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 311969

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat CoreOS host is missing a security update for openshift.

Description

The remote Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS 3 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2015:1736 advisory.

- OpenShift: Malformed JSON can cause API process crash (CVE-2015-5250)

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 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2015:1736.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 311969

File Name: rhcos-RHSA-2015-1736.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 5/4/2026

Updated: 5/4/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-5250

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openshift, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openshift-clients, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openshift-master, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openshift-node, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openshift-sdn-ovs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tuned-profiles-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: 9/3/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/3/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-5250

CWE: 20

RHSA: 2015:1736

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