RHEL 7 : .NET Core on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHSA-2018:2902)

high Nessus Plugin ID 118127

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for .NET Core on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2018:2902 advisory.

.NET Core is a managed software framework. It implements a subset of the .NET framework APIs and several new APIs, and it includes a CLR implementation.

New versions of .NET Core that address several security vulnerabilities are now available. The updated versions are .NET Core 1.1.1 and 1.0.13.

These versions correspond to the October 2018 security release by .NET Core upstream projects.

Security Fix(es):

* An information disclosure vulnerability exists in .NET Core when authentication information is inadvertently exposed in a redirect (CVE-2018-8292)

For more information, please refer to the upstream docs in the References section.

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

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL .NET Core on Red Hat Enterprise Linux package based on the guidance in RHSA-2018:2902.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 118127

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-2902.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 10/16/2018

Updated: 4/15/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-8292

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-dotnetcore11-dotnetcore, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-dotnetcore10-dotnetcore, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

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: 10/9/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/10/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-8292

CWE: 201

RHSA: 2018:2902

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