RHEL 8 : OpenShift Container Platform 4.6.36 (RHSA-2021:2499)

high Nessus Plugin ID 151117

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for OpenShift Container Platform 4.6.36.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2021:2499 advisory.

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is Red Hat's cloud computing Kubernetes application platform solution designed for on-premise or private cloud deployments.

This advisory contains the RPM packages for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.6.36. See the following advisory for the container images for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2021:2498

Security Fix(es):

* jetty: local temporary directory hijacking vulnerability (CVE-2020-27216)

* jetty: buffer not correctly recycled in Gzip Request inflation (CVE-2020-27218)

* jetty: request containing multiple Accept headers with a large number of quality parameters may lead to DoS (CVE-2020-27223)

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 OpenShift Container Platform 4.6.36 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2021:2499.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 151117

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2021-2499.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 6/29/2021

Updated: 6/3/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-27218

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-27216

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jenkins

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: 6/29/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/23/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-27216, CVE-2020-27218, CVE-2020-27223

CWE: 226, 377, 400

RHSA: 2021:2499

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