RHEL 8 : haproxy (RHSA-2020:1288)

high Nessus Plugin ID 135183

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for haproxy.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:1288 advisory.

The haproxy packages provide a reliable, high-performance network load balancer for TCP and HTTP-based applications.

Security Fix(es):

* haproxy: malformed HTTP/2 requests can lead to out-of-bounds writes (CVE-2020-11100)

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 haproxy package based on the guidance in RHSA-2020:1288.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?50946b5b

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

https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/haproxy

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1288

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1819111

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 135183

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-1288.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/2/2020

Updated: 11/7/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-11100

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.1, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:haproxy

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: 4/2/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/2/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-11100

CWE: 787

RHSA: 2020:1288