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Fedora 29 : subscription-manager (2018-075821dc8f)

high Nessus Plugin ID 120218

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This is a primarily maintenance update. Please see the attached bugs for more specific details on what has improved as far as stability is concerned.

There is also a larger new feature which is being released in concert with work being done in Katello / Foreman. Subscription-manager has a concept of a package-profile. This contains information on all installed rpm packages for the system on which it is running.

We have expanded this reporting capability to include information on enabled and installed modules from modulemd as well as to report on which repositories this system has enabled presently.

This information is combined into a group of reports and submitted to the same endpoint on Katello / Foreman.

The new request is a PUT to /consumers/{consumer_uuid}/profiles. This is done only when the string 'combined_reporting' in the managerCapabilities key of the response to a GET /status.

The old just rpm profile reporting is still done as a PUT to /consumers/{consumer_uuid}/packages. This is at this point only done if the server side does not support the new capability.

More will likely be added in the future to further expand on this capability of reporting.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected subscription-manager package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-075821dc8f

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 120218

File Name: fedora_2018-075821dc8f.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/3/2019

Updated: 7/9/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-2663

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/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:fedoraproject:fedora:subscription-manager, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:29

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/15/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/27/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-2663