RHEL 7 : lasso (RHSA-2021:2989)

high Nessus Plugin ID 152355

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for lasso.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2021:2989 advisory.

The lasso packages provide the Lasso library that implements the Liberty Alliance Single Sign-On standards, including the SAML and SAML2 specifications. It allows handling of the whole life-cycle of SAML-based federations and provides bindings for multiple languages.

Security Fix(es):

* lasso: XML signature wrapping vulnerability when parsing SAML responses (CVE-2021-28091)

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 lasso package based on the guidance in RHSA-2021:2989.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?7926831a

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:2989

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1940089

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 152355

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2021-2989.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/9/2021

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: Low

Score: 3.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-28091

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/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:lasso-python, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:lasso-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:lasso, 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: 8/2/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/2/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-28091

CWE: 345

RHSA: 2021:2989