RHEL 7 : openwsman (RHSA-2019:0638)

high Nessus Plugin ID 123123

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for openwsman.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2019:0638 advisory.

Openwsman is a project intended to provide an open source implementation of the Web Services Management specification (WS-Management) and to expose system management information on the Linux operating system using the WS-Management protocol. WS-Management is based on a suite of web services specifications and usage requirements that cover all system management aspects.

Security Fix(es):

* openwsman: Disclosure of arbitrary files outside of the registered URIs (CVE-2019-3816)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed 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 openwsman package based on the guidance in RHSA-2019:0638.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 123123

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-0638.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 3/26/2019

Updated: 11/6/2024

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: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

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-2019-3816

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:openwsman-client, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openwsman-ruby, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openwsman, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openwsman-perl, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openwsman-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openwsman-python, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libwsman1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libwsman-devel

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: 3/25/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/14/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-3816

CWE: 22

RHSA: 2019:0638

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