RHCOS 4 : OpenShift Container Platform 4.6.17 (RHSA-2021:0423)

high Nessus Plugin ID 312439

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat CoreOS host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS 4 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2021:0423 advisory.

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

- ant: insecure temporary file (CVE-2020-11979)

- jenkins: Arbitrary file read vulnerability in workspace browsers (CVE-2021-21602)

- jenkins: XSS vulnerability in notification bar (CVE-2021-21603)

- jenkins: Improper handling of REST API XML deserialization errors (CVE-2021-21604)

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 affected jenkins package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1925145

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1925151

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1925156

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1925157

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1925159

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1925160

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1925161

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1925674

http://www.nessus.org/u?0e17de55

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0423

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=1903702

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1921322

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1925140

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1925141

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1925143

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 312439

File Name: rhcos-RHSA-2021-0423.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: 4.4

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

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jenkins, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8: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: 2/17/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/14/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-11979, CVE-2020-1945, 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, CVE-2021-21615

CWE: 20, 22, 377, 502, 59, 770, 79, 863

RHSA: 2021:0423