RHEL 7 : OpenShift Container Platform 3.11.542 (RHSA-2021:3915)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 154737

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for OpenShift Container Platform 3.11.542.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2021:3915 advisory.

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

Security Fix(es):

* kubernetes: Node disk DOS by writing to container /etc/hosts (CVE-2020-8557)

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 OpenShift Container Platform 3.11.542 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2021:3915.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 154737

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2021-3915.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 10/29/2021

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-8557

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-master, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-clients-redistributable, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-docker-excluder, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-excluder, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-hyperkube, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-template-service-broker, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-hypershift, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-pod, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-clients, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-node, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-sdn-ovs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-tests

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: 10/28/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/23/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-8557

CWE: 400

RHSA: 2021:3915

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