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CentOS 8 : varnish:6 (CESA-2021:2988)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 152358

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CESA-2021:2988 advisory.

 - varnish: HTTP/2 request smuggling attack via a large Content-Length header for a POST request (CVE-2021-36740)

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 affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:2988

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 152358

File Name: centos8_RHSA-2021-2988.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/9/2021

Updated: 8/9/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-36740

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:varnish, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:varnish-docs, cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:varnish-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:varnish-modules

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/CentOS/release, Host/CentOS/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/2/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/14/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-36740

RHSA: 2021:2988