RHCOS 3 : OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 HTTP/2 (RHSA-2019:3906)

high Nessus Plugin ID 312525

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat CoreOS host is missing one or more security updates for OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 HTTP/2.

Description

The remote Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS 3 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:3906 advisory.

- HTTP/2: flood using PING frames results in unbounded memory growth (CVE-2019-9512)

- HTTP/2: flood using HEADERS frames results in unbounded memory growth (CVE-2019-9514)

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 HTTP/2 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2019:3906.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 312525

File Name: rhcos-RHSA-2019-3906.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 5/6/2026

Updated: 5/6/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-9514

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:golang-github-prometheus-node_exporter, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-service-idler, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openshift-enterprise-autoheal, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openshift-external-storage-snapshot-controller, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:golang-github-prometheus-prometheus, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:csi-driver-registrar, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:golang-github-openshift-prometheus-alert-buffer, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:csi-attacher, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:csi-provisioner, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-cluster-autoscaler, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cockpit-kubernetes, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:prometheus-alertmanager, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:image-inspector, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:heapster, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openshift-external-storage-cephfs-provisioner, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-web-console, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-node-problem-detector, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openshift-external-storage, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-enterprise-service-catalog, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:golang-github-openshift-oauth-proxy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:prometheus, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:hawkular-openshift-agent, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openshift-external-storage-local-provisioner, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openshift-external-storage-snapshot-provisioner, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-descheduler, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:golang-github-prometheus-alertmanager, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-metrics-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openshift-eventrouter, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openshift-enterprise-cluster-capacity, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:prometheus-node-exporter, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7:coreos, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:csi-livenessprobe, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openshift-external-storage-efs-provisioner, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openshift-external-storage-manila-provisioner, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-enterprise-service-catalog-svcat, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cockpit

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: 11/18/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/9/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-9512, CVE-2019-9514

CWE: 400

RHSA: 2019:3906

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