RHEL 7 : skopeo (RHSA-2020:2681)

low Nessus Plugin ID 137750

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:2681 advisory.

The skopeo command lets you inspect images from container image registries, get images and image layers, and use signatures to create and verify files.

Security Fix(es):

* containers/image: Container images read entire image manifest into memory (CVE-2020-1702)

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.

Bug Fix(es):

* Proposed registries.conf for RHEL 7.8 (BZ#1810052)

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 skopeo package based on the guidance in RHSA-2020:2681.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?7ee5fe10

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:2681

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1792796

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1810052

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 137750

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-2681.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/23/2020

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: 1.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-1702

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

Temporal Score: 2.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:skopeo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:containers-common, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

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: 6/23/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/26/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-1702

CWE: 400

RHSA: 2020:2681