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RHEL 8 : virt-manager (RHSA-2019:3464)
low Nessus Plugin ID 130541
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Synopsis
The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.Description
The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2019:3464 advisory.Virtual Machine Manager (virt-manager) is a graphical tool for administering virtual machines for KVM, Xen, and Linux Containers (LXC). The virt-manager utility uses the libvirt API and can start, stop, add or remove virtualized devices, connect to a graphical or serial console, and view resource usage statistics for existing virtualized guests on local or remote machines.
The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: virt-manager (2.2.1). (BZ#1727881)
Security Fix(es):
* virt-install: unattended option leaks password via command line argument (CVE-2019-10183)
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.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Release Notes linked from 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 affected virt-install, virt-manager and / or virt-manager-common packages.See Also
http://www.nessus.org/u?63902f95
http://www.nessus.org/u?b8d3b26b
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3464
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1599139
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1659354
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1660123
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1660467
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1661867
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1666597
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1667025
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1671599
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1679018
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1683609
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1690685
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1690687
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1692489
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1700354
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1707379
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1709857
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1714304
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1718065
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1722820
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1724287
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1726232
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1727811
Plugin Details
Severity: Low
ID: 130541
File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-3464.nasl
Version: 1.5
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks
Published: 11/6/2019
Updated: 11/7/2024
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Low
Score: 1.4
Vendor
Vendor Severity: Low
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Low
Base Score: 2.1
Temporal Score: 1.6
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-10183
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Low
Base Score: 3.3
Temporal Score: 2.9
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:virt-manager-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:virt-manager, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:virt-install
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: 11/5/2019
Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/3/2019
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2019-10183