The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:1762 advisory.

    The Advanced Virtualization module provides the user-space component for running virtual machines that use     KVM in environments managed by Red Hat products.

    Security Fix(es):

    * libvirt: arbitrary file read/exec via virDomainSaveImageGetXMLDesc API (CVE-2019-10161)

    * libvirt: virDomainManagedSaveDefineXML API exposed to readonly clients (CVE-2019-10166)

    * libvirt: arbitrary command execution via virConnectGetDomainCapabilities API (CVE-2019-10167)

    * libvirt: arbitrary command execution via virConnectBaselineHypervisorCPU and     virConnectCompareHypervisorCPU APIs (CVE-2019-10168)

    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 these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Detections

Analytics

RHEL 8 : virt:8.0.0 (RHSA-2019:1762)

high Nessus Plugin ID 126679

Version 1.14

Version 1.13

Version 1.12

Version 1.14 Nov 7, 2024, 2:42 AM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411070242
Version 1.13 Nov 5, 2024, 12:50 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411051250
Version 1.12 Apr 28, 2024, 1:01 AM CVSSv3 score source (set to "CVE-2019-10168") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202404280101