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RHCOS 3 : OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 (RHSA-2019:2817)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 312528

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS 3 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:2817 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)

 - containers/image: not enforcing TLS when sending username+password credentials to token servers leading to credential disclosure (CVE-2019-10214)

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 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2019:2817.

See Also

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1732508

http://www.nessus.org/u?7684749f

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2817

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 312528

File Name: rhcos-RHSA-2019-2817.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

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: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-10214

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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: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: 9/23/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/9/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-10214, CVE-2019-9512, CVE-2019-9514

CWE: 400, 522

RHSA: 2019:2817