The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2021:1586 advisory.

    GNOME is the default desktop environment of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

    The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: accountsservice (0.6.55),     webkit2gtk3 (2.30.4). (BZ#1846376, BZ#1883304)

    Security Fix(es):

    * webkitgtk: type confusion may lead to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2020-9948)

    * webkitgtk: use-after-free may lead to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2020-9951)

    * webkitgtk: out-of-bounds write may lead to code execution (CVE-2020-9983)

    * webkitgtk: use-after-free may lead to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2020-13543)

    * webkitgtk: use-after-free may lead to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2020-13584)

    * glib2: insecure permissions for files and directories (CVE-2019-13012)

    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.

    Additional Changes:

    For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Release Notes     linked from 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.

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RHEL 8 : GNOME (RHSA-2021:1586)

high Nessus Plugin ID 149698

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Version 1.14 Nov 8, 2024, 2:25 AM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411080225
Version 1.13 Nov 5, 2024, 12:50 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411051250
Version 1.12 Apr 28, 2024, 2:25 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202404281425
Version 1.11 Oct 27, 2023, 4:19 PM IAVM reference STIG Severity (changed from "I" to "None") Plugin Feed: 202310271619
Version 1.10 May 25, 2023, 7:14 PM CISA reference CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:F/RL:OF/RC:C". "CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C") CVSSv2 score source (changed from "CVE-2020-9983" to "CVE-2021-30661") Plugin Feed: 202305251914
Version 1.9 May 25, 2023, 12:55 AM Logic Changes (Added support for ppc64le architecture) Plugin Feed: 202305250055
Version 1.9 May 25, 2023, 5:09 PM CISA reference CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:F/RL:OF/RC:C") CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C") CVSSv2 score source (changed from "CVE-2020-9983" to "CVE-2021-30661") Plugin Feed: 202305251709
Version 1.8 Jan 23, 2023, 7:12 PM Logic Changes (Added support for repository relative URLs) Plugin Feed: 202301231912