RHCOS 3 : OpenShift Container Platform 3.7 (RHSA-2018:2906)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 312020

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat CoreOS host is missing one or more security updates for OpenShift Container Platform 3.7.

Description

The remote Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS 3 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:2906 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 3.7 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2018:2906.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 312020

File Name: rhcos-RHSA-2018-2906.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 5/4/2026

Updated: 5/4/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, 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-cluster-capacity, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openshift-ansible-playbooks, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-clients-redistributable, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-service-catalog, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-dockerregistry, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openshift-ansible-filter-plugins, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openshift-ansible, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-docker-excluder, 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:atomic-openshift-excluder, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-tests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tuned-profiles-atomic-openshift-node, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-federation-services, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openshift-ansible-docs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openshift-ansible-lookup-plugins, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openshift-ansible-roles, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7:coreos, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openshift-ansible-callback-plugins, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-clients, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-node, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-utils, 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: 11/21/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/6/2018

Reference Information

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

CWE: 305, 787

RHSA: 2018:2906

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