RHEL 8 : openwsman (RHSA-2020:4689)

high Nessus Plugin ID 142446

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:4689 advisory.

Openwsman is a project intended to provide an open source implementation of the Web Services Management specification (WS-Management) and to expose system management information on the Linux operating system using the WS-Management protocol. WS-Management is based on a suite of web services specifications and usage requirements that cover all system management aspects.

Security Fix(es):

* openwsman: Infinite loop in process_connection() allows denial of service (CVE-2019-3833)

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 openwsman package based on the guidance in RHSA-2020:4689.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 142446

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-4689.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

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: Low

Score: 3.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

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-2019-3833

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:openwsman-client, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openwsman, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openwsman-python3, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openwsman-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libwsman1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libwsman-devel, 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: 11/4/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/12/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-3833

BID: 107367

CWE: 835

RHSA: 2020:4689

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