RHCOS 3 : OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 (RHSA-2020:2992)

high Nessus Plugin ID 312533

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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 packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:2992 advisory.

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

- nodejs-minimist: prototype pollution allows adding or modifying properties of Object.prototype using a constructor or __proto__ payload (CVE-2020-7598)

- kubernetes: Use of unbounded 'client' label in apiserver_request_total allows for memory exhaustion (CVE-2020-8552)

- kubernetes: node localhost services reachable via martian packets (CVE-2020-8558)

- proglottis/gpgme: Use-after-free in GPGME bindings during container image pull (CVE-2020-8945)

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-2020:2992.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 312533

File Name: rhcos-RHSA-2020-2992.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: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-7598

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-8558

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-web-console, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-clients, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-clients-redistributable, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-master, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-node, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-pod, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-sdn-ovs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-tests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-docker-excluder, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-excluder, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-template-service-broker, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cri-o, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-hyperkube, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-hypershift, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7:coreos

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: 7/27/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/25/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-14891, CVE-2020-10715, CVE-2020-7598, CVE-2020-8552, CVE-2020-8558, CVE-2020-8945

CWE: 20, 300, 400, 416, 460

RHSA: 2020:2992

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