RHEL 8 : OpenShift Container Platform 4.7.38 (RHSA-2021:4801)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 155765

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for OpenShift Container Platform 4.7.38.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2021:4801 advisory.

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

This advisory contains the RPM packages for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.7.38. See the following advisory for the container images for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2021:4802

All OpenShift Container Platform 4.7 users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages and images when they are available in the appropriate release channel. To check for available updates, use the OpenShift Console or the CLI oc command. Instructions for upgrading a cluster are available at https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.7/updating/updating-cluster-between- minor.html#understanding-upgrade-channels_updating-cluster-between-minor Security Fix(es):

* jenkins-2-plugins/subversion: does not restrict the name of a file when looking up a subversion key (CVE-2021-21698)
* jenkins: FilePath#mkdirs does not check permission to create parent directories (CVE-2021-21685)
* jenkins: File path filters do not canonicalize paths, allowing operations to follow symbolic links to outside allowed directories (CVE-2021-21686)
* jenkins: FilePath#untar does not check permission to create symbolic links when unarchiving a symbolic link (CVE-2021-21687)
* jenkins: FilePath#reading(FileVisitor) does not reject any operations allowing users to have unrestricted read access (CVE-2021-21688)
* jenkins: FilePath#unzip and FilePath#untar were not subject to any access control (CVE-2021-21689)
* jenkins: Agent processes are able to completely bypass file path filtering by wrapping the file operation in an agent file path (CVE-2021-21690)
* jenkins: Creating symbolic links is possible without the symlink permission (CVE-2021-21691)
* jenkins: The operations FilePath#renameTo and FilePath#moveAllChildrenTo only check read permission on the source path (CVE-2021-21692)
* jenkins: When creating temporary files, permission to create files is only checked after theyve been created. (CVE-2021-21693)
* jenkins: FilePath#toURI, FilePath#hasSymlink, FilePath#absolutize, FilePath#isDescendant, and FilePath#get*DiskSpace do not check any permissions (CVE-2021-21694)
* jenkins: FilePath#listFiles lists files outside directories with agent read access when following symbolic links. (CVE-2021-21695)
* jenkins: Agent-to-controller access control allowed writing to sensitive directory used by Pipeline: Shared Groovy Libraries Plugin (CVE-2021-21696)
* jenkins: Agent-to-controller access control allows reading/writing most content of build directories (CVE-2021-21697)

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 OpenShift Container Platform 4.7.38 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2021:4801.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 155765

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2021-4801.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 12/2/2021

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: Medium

Score: 6.7

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-2021-21696

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jenkins-2-plugins, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jenkins

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: 12/1/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/4/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-21685, CVE-2021-21686, CVE-2021-21687, CVE-2021-21688, CVE-2021-21689, CVE-2021-21690, CVE-2021-21691, CVE-2021-21692, CVE-2021-21693, CVE-2021-21694, CVE-2021-21695, CVE-2021-21696, CVE-2021-21697, CVE-2021-21698

CWE: 22, 276, 281, 59, 863

IAVA: 2021-A-0551-S

RHSA: 2021:4801

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