RHEL 8 : CloudForms 5.0.6 (RHSA-2020:2480)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 137312

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:2480 advisory.

Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine delivers the insight, control, and automation needed to address the challenges of managing virtual environments. CloudForms Management Engine is built on Ruby on Rails, a model-view-controller (MVC) framework for web application development. Action Pack implements the controller and the view components.

Security Fix(es):

* cfme-gemset: rubygem-rack: hijack sessions by using timing attacks targeting the session id (CVE-2019-16782)

* cfme-amazon-smartstate: rubygem-rack: hijack sessions by using timing attacks targeting the session id (CVE-2019-16782)

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.

Additional Changes:

This update fixes various bugs and adds enhancements. Documentation for these changes is available from the Release Notes document linked to 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 affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 137312

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-2480.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 6/10/2020

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: Low

Score: 3.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-16782

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:H/I:N/A:N

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libssh2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cfme-amazon-smartstate, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cfme-appliance-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-ansible-runner, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cfme-appliance, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cfme-gemset, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cfme, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cfme-appliance-tools, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ansible-runner

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: 6/10/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/18/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-16782

CWE: 200

RHSA: 2020:2480

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