RHEL 8 : Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 1.1 (RHSA-2020:3425)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 139508

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 1.1.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:3425 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):

* istio: incorrect translation of DENY policy for TCP service (CVE-2020-16844)

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 Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 1.1 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2020:3425.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?e2c7b9f3

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:3425

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1861625

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 139508

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-3425.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/11/2020

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: 6.0

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-16844

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:servicemesh-mixs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:servicemesh-pilot-discovery, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:servicemesh-galley, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:servicemesh, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:servicemesh-mixc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:servicemesh-istioctl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:servicemesh-sidecar-injector, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:servicemesh-pilot-agent, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:servicemesh-citadel

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: 8/11/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/11/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-16844

CWE: 284

RHSA: 2020:3425