RHEL 8 : Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 1.1.17.1 (RHSA-2021:3273)

high Nessus Plugin ID 152829

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 1.1.17.1.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2021:3273 advisory.

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh is Red Hat's distribution of the Istio service mesh project, tailored for installation into an on-premise OpenShift Container Platform installation.

Security Fix(es):

* envoyproxy/envoy: HTTP request with multiple value headers can bypass authorization policies (CVE-2021-32777)

* envoyproxy/envoy: HTTP request with a URL fragment in the URI can bypass authorization policies (CVE-2021-32779)

* envoyproxy/envoy: denial of service when using extensions that modify request or response sizes (CVE-2021-32781)

* istio/istio: HTTP request can bypass authorization mechanisms due to case insensitive host comparison (CVE-2021-39155)

* istio/istio: HTTP request with fragment in URI can bypass authorization mechanisms (CVE-2021-39156)

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 Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 1.1.17.1 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2021:3273.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?4df3b4ae

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3273

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1996915

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1996929

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1996933

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1996934

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1996935

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 152829

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2021-3273.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/25/2021

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: Medium

Score: 4.0

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-32779

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.3

Temporal Score: 7.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:servicemesh-mixs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:servicemesh-proxy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:servicemesh-pilot-discovery, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:servicemesh-galley, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:servicemesh, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:servicemesh-mixc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:servicemesh-istioctl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:servicemesh-sidecar-injector, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:servicemesh-pilot-agent, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:servicemesh-citadel

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: 8/25/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/24/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-32777, CVE-2021-32779, CVE-2021-32781, CVE-2021-39155, CVE-2021-39156

CWE: 476, 863

RHSA: 2021:3273