RHEL 8 : pki-core:10.6 (RHSA-2021:0966)

high Nessus Plugin ID 148020

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for pki-core:10.6.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2021:0966 advisory.

The Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Core contains fundamental packages required by Red Hat Certificate System.

Security Fix(es):

* pki-core: Unprivileged users can renew any certificate (CVE-2021-20179)

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 pki-core:10.6 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2021:0966.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?d6dc805e

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0966

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1914379

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1933146

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 148020

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2021-0966.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/23/2021

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: 5.2

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-20179

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pki-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pki-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pki-base, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-pki, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pki-base-java, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ldapjdk, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcatjss, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jss, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pki-symkey, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pki-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jss-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pki-kra, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pki-ca, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ldapjdk-javadoc

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: 3/23/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/12/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-20179

CWE: 863

RHSA: 2021:0966