RHCOS 3 : OpenShift Container Platform 3.11.705 (RHSA-2022:2280)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 312087

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat CoreOS host is missing one or more security updates for OpenShift Container Platform 3.11.705.

Description

The remote Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS 3 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:2280 advisory.

- prometheus/client_golang: Denial of service using InstrumentHandlerCounter (CVE-2022-21698)

- credentials: Stored XSS vulnerabilities in jenkins plugin (CVE-2022-29036)

- subversion: Stored XSS vulnerabilities in Jenkins subversion plugin (CVE-2022-29046)

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 3.11.705 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2022:2280.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 312087

File Name: rhcos-RHSA-2022-2280.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 5/4/2026

Updated: 5/4/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.5

Temporal Score: 2.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-29046

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-dockerregistry, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jenkins-2-plugins, 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: 5/31/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/15/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-21698, CVE-2022-29036, CVE-2022-29046

CWE: 772, 79

RHSA: 2022:2280

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