RHCOS 3 : OpenShift Container Platform 3.9 (RHSA-2018:2908)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 311991

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat CoreOS host is missing one or more security updates for OpenShift Container Platform 3.9.

Description

The remote Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS 3 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:2908 advisory.

- atomic-openshift: oc patch with json causes masterapi service crash (CVE-2018-14632)

- kubernetes: authentication/authorization bypass in the handling of non-101 responses (CVE-2018-1002105)

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 3.9 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2018:2908.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 311991

File Name: rhcos-RHSA-2018-2908.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: High

Score: 7.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

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-2018-1002105

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: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-service-catalog, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-cluster-capacity, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-clients-redistributable, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-master, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-docker-excluder, 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-excluder, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-sdn-ovs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-tests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-federation-services, 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, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-template-service-broker

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: 11/20/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/6/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1002105, CVE-2018-14632

CWE: 305, 787

RHSA: 2018:2908

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