RHEL 7 : redhat-certification (RHSA-2018:2373)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 111774

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for redhat-certification.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:2373 advisory.

The redhat-certification package provides partners with a unified web-based user interface to certify their products for use on Red Hat Infrastructure. It can currently be used in the latest releases of Red Hat Certified Cloud and Service Provider Certification, Red Hat OpenStack Certification and Red Hat Hardware Certification Programs.

Security Fix(es):

* redhat-certification: rhcertStore.py:__saveResultsFile allows to write any file (CVE-2018-10870)

* redhat-certification: /download allows to download any file (CVE-2018-10869)

* redhat-certification: resource consumption in DocumentBase:loadFiltered (CVE-2018-10864)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

These issues were discovered by Riccardo Schirone (Red Hat Product Security).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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 RHEL redhat-certification package based on the guidance in RHSA-2018:2373.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2373

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1593780

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1593627

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

http://www.nessus.org/u?7d676431

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1593803

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 111774

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-2373.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/16/2018

Updated: 11/5/2024

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

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

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 Score Source: CVE-2018-10870

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: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:redhat-certification-baremetal, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:redhat-certification-cloud, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:redhat-certification-hardware, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:redhat-certification, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:redhat-certification-backend, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:redhat-certification-openstack, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:redhat-certification-hardware-preview

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: 8/9/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/19/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-10864, CVE-2018-10869, CVE-2018-10870

CWE: 22, 400, 732

RHSA: 2018:2373