RHEL 8 : pacemaker (RHSA-2020:5423)

high Nessus Plugin ID 144274

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:5423 advisory.

The Pacemaker cluster resource manager is a collection of technologies working together to maintain data integrity and application availability in the event of failures.

Security Fix(es):

* pacemaker: ACL restrictions bypass (CVE-2020-25654)

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 pacemaker package based on the guidance in RHSA-2020:5423.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?68661d30

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:5423

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1888191

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 144274

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-5423.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/15/2020

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-25654

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pacemaker-cts, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pacemaker-schemas, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pacemaker-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pacemaker-libs-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pacemaker-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pacemaker-cluster-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pacemaker-nagios-plugins-metadata, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pacemaker-cli, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pacemaker-remote, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pacemaker

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: 12/15/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/18/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-25654

CWE: 284

RHSA: 2020:5423