RHEL 8 : resource-agents (RHSA-2020:4605)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 142441

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for resource-agents.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:4605 advisory.

The resource-agents packages provide the Pacemaker and RGManager service managers with a set of scripts.
These scripts interface with several services to allow operating in a high-availability (HA) environment.

Security Fix(es):

* python-httplib2: CRLF injection via an attacker controlled unescaped part of uri for httplib2.Http.request function (CVE-2020-11078)

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:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 Release Notes linked from 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 resource-agents package based on the guidance in RHSA-2020:4605.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?44b830f6

http://www.nessus.org/u?b6fc2a10

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4605

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1759115

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1817432

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1817598

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1819021

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1820523

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1830716

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1832321

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1836186

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1843999

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1845574

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1845581

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1845583

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1845937

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1846733

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1850778

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 142441

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-4605.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/4/2020

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

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:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-11078

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:resource-agents-aliyun, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:resource-agents-gcp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:resource-agents

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: 11/4/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/20/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-11078

CWE: 113

RHSA: 2020:4605