RHEL 8 : java-11-openjdk (RHSA-2021:1307)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 148879

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for java-11-openjdk.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2021:1307 advisory.

The java-11-openjdk packages provide the OpenJDK 11 Java Runtime Environment and the OpenJDK 11 Java Software Development Kit.

Security Fix(es):

* OpenJDK: Incomplete enforcement of JAR signing disabled algorithms (8249906) (CVE-2021-2163)

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 java-11-openjdk package based on the guidance in RHSA-2021:1307.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?b19ed3a9

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1307

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1943341

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1951217

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 148879

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2021-1307.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/21/2021

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.6

Temporal Score: 1.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-2163

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/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:java-11-openjdk-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-11-openjdk-javadoc-zip, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-11-openjdk-static-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-11-openjdk-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-11-openjdk-jmods, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-11-openjdk, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-11-openjdk-demo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-11-openjdk-headless, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-11-openjdk-src

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: 4/20/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-2163

CWE: 327

IAVA: 2021-A-0195

RHSA: 2021:1307