RHEL 8 : pcs (RHSA-2021:4142)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 155058

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2021:4142 advisory.

The pcs packages provide a command-line configuration system for the Pacemaker and Corosync utilities.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: pcs (0.10.10). (BZ#1935594)

Security Fix(es):

* jquery: Cross-site scripting (XSS) via <script> HTML tags containing whitespaces (CVE-2020-7656)

* jquery: Untrusted code execution via <option> tag in HTML passed to DOM manipulation methods (CVE-2020-11023)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5 Release Notes linked from 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 affected pcs and / or pcs-snmp packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?206e5b27

http://www.nessus.org/u?7240878e

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4142

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1290830

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1432097

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1678273

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1690419

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1720221

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1759995

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1841019

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1850004

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1850119

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1854238

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1872378

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1885293

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1885302

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1896458

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1909901

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1922996

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1927384

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1927394

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1930886

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1935594

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1984901

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1991654

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1992668

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1998454

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 155058

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2021-4142.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/11/2021

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-7656

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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: 11/9/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/9/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-11358, CVE-2020-11023, CVE-2020-7656

CWE: 79

IAVA: 2021-A-0194-S

IAVB: 2020-B-0030

RHSA: 2021:4142