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RHCOS 4 : OpenShift Container Platform 4.7.11 (RHSA-2021:1551)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 312553

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat CoreOS host is missing one or more security updates for OpenShift Container Platform 4.7.11.

Description

The remote Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS 4 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2021:1551 advisory.

 - golang: math/big: panic during recursive division of very large numbers (CVE-2020-28362)

 - golang: crypto/elliptic: incorrect operations on the P-224 curve (CVE-2021-3114)

 - jenkins: lack of type validation in agent related REST API (CVE-2021-21639)

 - jenkins: view name validation bypass (CVE-2021-21640)

 - jetty: Symlink directory exposes webapp directory contents (CVE-2021-28163)

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 4.7.11 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2021:1551.

See Also

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1897635

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1918750

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1945710

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1945714

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1959660

http://www.nessus.org/u?8c510955

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1551

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 312553

File Name: rhcos-RHSA-2021-1551.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/6/2026

Updated: 5/6/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3114

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jenkins, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:runc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cri-tools, 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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/19/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/18/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-28362, CVE-2021-21639, CVE-2021-21640, CVE-2021-28163, CVE-2021-28165, CVE-2021-3114

CWE: 20, 200, 295, 400, 682

RHSA: 2021:1551