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RHEL 5 / 6 : spacewalk-backend (RHSA-2017:1259)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 100287

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

An update for spacewalk-backend is now available for Red Hat Satellite 5.6 and Red Hat Satellite 5.7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Spacewalk is an Open Source systems management solution that provides system provisioning, configuration and patching capabilities.

Security Fix(es) :

* It was found that spacewalk-channel can be used by a non-admin user or disabled users to perform administrative tasks due to an incorrect authorization check in backend/server/rhnChannel.py. (CVE-2017-7470)

Red Hat would like to thank Bert Stel (SUSE) for reporting this issue.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1259

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-7470

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 100287

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2017-1259.nasl

Version: 3.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/19/2017

Updated: 10/24/2019

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-backend-package-push-server, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-backend-sql-postgresql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-backend-app, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-backend-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-backend-xmlrpc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-backend-config-files, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-backend-config-files-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-backend, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-backend-sql-oracle, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-backend-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-backend-iss-export, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-backend-xml-export-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-backend-iss, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-backend-sql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-backend-applet, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-backend-config-files-tool, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-backend-tools

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: 5/18/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/27/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-7470

RHSA: 2017:1259