RHEL 8 : openwsman (RHSA-2019:0972)

high Nessus Plugin ID 124665

Synopsis

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

Description

An update for openwsman is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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.

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.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0972

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-3816

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 124665

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-0972.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/7/2019

Updated: 5/28/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

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-client-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openwsman-python3, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libwsman1-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openwsman-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openwsman-python3-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libwsman1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openwsman-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-openwsman-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openwsman-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openwsman-server-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openwsman-perl-debuginfo, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libwsman-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8

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: 5/7/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/14/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-3816

RHSA: 2019:0972