RHCOS 3 : OpenShift Container Platform 3.10 (RHSA-2019:2690)

high Nessus Plugin ID 312552

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat CoreOS host is missing one or more security updates for OpenShift Container Platform 3.10.

Description

The remote Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS 3 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:2690 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)

- kubernetes: API server allows access to cluster-scoped custom resources as if resources were namespaced (CVE-2019-11247)

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 3.10 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2019:2690.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 312552

File Name: rhcos-RHSA-2019-2690.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: 5.2

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-11247

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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: 9/12/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/5/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-11247, CVE-2019-9512, CVE-2019-9514

CWE: 284, 400

RHSA: 2019:2690

Detections

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