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RHEL 7 : OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 mediawiki (RHSA-2019:3142)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 130044

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 mediawiki.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:3142 advisory.

 - mediawiki: $wgRateLimits (rate limit / ping limiter) entry for 'user' overrides that for 'newbie' (CVE-2018-0503)

 - mediawiki: BotPassword can bypass CentralAuth's account lock (CVE-2018-0505)

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

Solution

Update the RHEL OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 mediawiki package based on the guidance in RHSA-2019:3142.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?078b850d

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3142

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1634161

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1634166

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 130044

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-3142.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/18/2019

Updated: 4/28/2024

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: 4

Temporal Score: 3.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-0505

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mediawiki, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mediawiki-doc, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/18/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/4/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-0503, CVE-2018-0505

CWE: 285, 79

RHSA: 2019:3142