RHEL 8 : pki-core:10.6 (RHSA-2021:1263)

high Nessus Plugin ID 148857

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for pki-core:10.6.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2021:1263 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)

* pki-core: XSS in the certificate search results (CVE-2020-25715)

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.

Bug Fix(es):

* PKI instance creation failed with new 389-ds-base build (BZ#1933147)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues 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-2021:1263.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 148857

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2021-1263.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 4/20/2021

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: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.3

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: 7.3

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:P/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, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pki-symkey, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jss-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pki-kra, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pki-core, 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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/20/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/4/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-25715, CVE-2021-20179

CWE: 79, 863

RHSA: 2021:1263

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