RHEL 8 : Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 1.1 servicemesh-proxy (RHSA-2020:2798)

high Nessus Plugin ID 138030

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 1.1 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-2020:2798 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: Resource exhaustion when accepting too many connections (CVE-2020-8663)

* envoy: Resource exhaustion when proxying HTTP/2 requests or responses with small data frames (CVE-2020-12603)

* envoy: Resource exhaustion when processing HTTP/1.1 headers with long field names (CVE-2020-12605)

* envoy: Resource exhaustion via HTTP/2 client requests with large payloads and improper stream windows (CVE-2020-12604)

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 1.1 servicemesh-proxy package based on the guidance in RHSA-2020:2798.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 138030

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-2798.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 7/1/2020

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: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-8663

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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: 7/1/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/1/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-12603, CVE-2020-12604, CVE-2020-12605, CVE-2020-8663

CWE: 400

RHSA: 2020:2798

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