RHCOS 3 : OpenShift Container Platform 3.11.394 (RHSA-2021:0637)

high Nessus Plugin ID 312427

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat CoreOS host is missing one or more security updates for OpenShift Container Platform 3.11.394.

Description

The remote Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS 3 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2021:0637 advisory.

- ant: insecure temporary file vulnerability (CVE-2020-1945)

- jenkins-2-plugins/subversion: XML parser is not preventing XML external entity (XXE) attacks (CVE-2020-2304)

- jenkins-2-plugins/mercurial: XML parser is not preventing XML external entity (XXE) attacks (CVE-2020-2305)

- jenkins-2-plugins/mercurial: Missing permission check in an HTTP endpoint could result in information disclosure (CVE-2020-2306)

- jenkins-2-plugins/kubernetes: Jenkins controller environment variables are accessible in Kubernetes Plugin (CVE-2020-2307)

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 3.11.394 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2021:0637.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1837444

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1849003

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1873346

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1879407

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1889972

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1895939

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1895940

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1895941

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1895945

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1895946

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1895947

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1903699

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1903702

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1918392

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1920567

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1921353

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1924614

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1924811

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1929170

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1929216

http://www.nessus.org/u?9d9c0d20

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0637

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 312427

File Name: rhcos-RHSA-2021-0637.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/6/2026

Updated: 5/6/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-21605

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8

Temporal Score: 7.2

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.2

Threat Score: 6.9

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-25658

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jenkins, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jenkins-2-plugins, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-rsa, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7:coreos, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-rsa

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: 3/3/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/14/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-11979, CVE-2020-1945, CVE-2020-2304, CVE-2020-2305, CVE-2020-2306, CVE-2020-2307, CVE-2020-2308, CVE-2020-2309, CVE-2020-25658, CVE-2021-21602, CVE-2021-21603, CVE-2021-21604, CVE-2021-21605, CVE-2021-21606, CVE-2021-21607, CVE-2021-21608, CVE-2021-21609, CVE-2021-21610, CVE-2021-21611

CWE: 20, 200, 377, 385, 502, 59, 611, 770, 79, 862, 863

RHSA: 2021:0637