RHEL 8 : Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 1.0.9 servicemesh-proxy (RHSA-2020:0734)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 134345

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 1.0.9 servicemesh- proxy.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:0734 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.

Security Fix(es):

* envoy: Excessive CPU and/or memory usage when proxying HTTP/1.1 (CVE-2020-8659)

* envoy: TLS inspector bypassc (CVE-2020-8660)

* envoy: Response flooding for HTTP/1.1 (CVE-2020-8661)

* envoy: Incorrect Access Control when using SDS with Combined Validation Context (CVE-2020-8664)

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 Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 1.0.9 servicemesh-proxy package based on the guidance in RHSA-2020:0734.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?90adbb14

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0734

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1802539

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1802540

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1802542

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1802545

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 134345

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-0734.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/9/2020

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: 3.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-8664

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/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: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: 3/5/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/4/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-8659, CVE-2020-8660, CVE-2020-8661, CVE-2020-8664

CWE: 284, 358, 400

RHSA: 2020:0734