RHEL 7 : etcd (RHSA-2021:1407)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 149025

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for etcd.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2021:1407 advisory.

The etcd packages provide a highly available key-value store for shared configuration.

Security Fix(es):

* etcd: Large slice causes panic in decodeRecord method (CVE-2020-15106)

* etcd: DoS in wal/wal.go (CVE-2020-15112)

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 these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL etcd package based on the guidance in RHSA-2021:1407.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 149025

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2021-1407.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 4/27/2021

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-15112

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/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:etcd, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

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: 4/27/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/5/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-15106, CVE-2020-15112

CWE: 400

RHSA: 2021:1407

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