RHCOS 4 : OpenShift Container Platform 4.2.36 cri-o (RHSA-2020:2776)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 312478

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat CoreOS host is missing a security update for OpenShift Container Platform 4.2.36 cri-o.

Description

The remote Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS 4 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:2776 advisory.

- cri-o: infra container reparented to systemd following OOM Killer killing it's conmon (CVE-2019-14891)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHCOS OpenShift Container Platform 4.2.36 cri-o package based on the guidance in RHSA-2020:2776.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 312478

File Name: rhcos-RHSA-2020-2776.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 5/6/2026

Updated: 5/6/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

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-2019-14891

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cri-o, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8:coreos, 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: 7/1/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/25/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-14891

CWE: 460

RHSA: 2020:2776

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