RHEL 8 : Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 1.0.7 servicemesh-proxy (RHSA-2020:0477)

high Nessus Plugin ID 133664

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 1.0.7 servicemesh-proxy.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:0477 advisory.

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh is Red Hat's distribution of the Istio service mesh project, tailored for installation into an on-premise OpenShift Container Platform installation.

This advisory covers the RPM packages for the OpenShift Service Mesh 1.0.7 release.

Security Fix(es):

* istio: unauthorised access to JWT protected HTTP path (CVE-2020-8595)

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

Solution

Update the RHEL Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 1.0.7 servicemesh-proxy package based on the guidance in RHSA-2020:0477.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 133664

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-0477.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 2/13/2020

Updated: 11/8/2024

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: 3.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-8595

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.3

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:servicemesh-proxy, 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: 2/12/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/12/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-8595

CWE: 285

RHSA: 2020:0477

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