RHEL 8 : OpenShift Container Platform 4.3.5 podman (RHSA-2020:0680)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 134390

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for OpenShift Container Platform 4.3.5 podman.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:0680 advisory.

The podman tool manages Pods, container images, and containers. It is part of the libpod library, which is for applications that use container Pods. Container Pods is a concept in Kubernetes.

Security Fix(es):

* podman: incorrectly allowed existing files in volumes to be overwritten by a container when it was created (CVE-2020-1726)

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 OpenShift Container Platform 4.3.5 podman package based on the guidance in RHSA-2020:0680.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?3f53339d

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0680

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1801152

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 134390

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-0680.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/11/2020

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: Low

Score: 3.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-1726

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-docker, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-remote, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-manpages, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-tests

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: 3/10/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/11/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-1726

CWE: 552

RHSA: 2020:0680