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RHEL 7 : OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 atomic-openshift (RHSA-2019:3905)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 131153

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:3905 advisory.

 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is Red Hat's cloud computing Kubernetes application platform solution designed for on-premise or private cloud deployments.

 This advisory contains the atomic-openshift RPM package for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11.154.

 Security Fix(es):

 * kubernetes: YAML parsing vulnerable to Billion Laughs attack, allowing for remote denial of service (CVE-2019-11253)

 * kubernetes: `kubectl cp` allows for arbitrary file write via double symlinks (CVE-2019-11251)

 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.

Solution

Update the RHEL OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 atomic-openshift package based on the guidance in RHSA-2019:3905.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?59126178

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3905

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1753495

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1757701

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 131153

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-3905.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/20/2019

Updated: 11/7/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless 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: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-11251

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.7

Temporal Score: 5.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/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:atomic-openshift-master, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-clients-redistributable, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-docker-excluder, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-excluder, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-hyperkube, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-template-service-broker, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-hypershift, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-pod, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-clients, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-node, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-sdn-ovs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-tests

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: 11/18/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/17/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-11251, CVE-2019-11253

CWE: 400, 59

RHSA: 2019:3905