RHEL 8 : Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.1 (etcd) (RHSA-2021:5072)

high Nessus Plugin ID 156004

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.1 (etcd).

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2021:5072 advisory.

A highly-available key value store for shared configuration

Security Fix(es):

* net/http: panic in ReadRequest and ReadResponse when reading a very large header (CVE-2021-31525)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page 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 OpenStack Platform 16.1 (etcd) package based on the guidance in RHSA-2021:5072.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?2c5aa85a

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:5072

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1958341

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1989564

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1989570

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1989575

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 156004

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2021-5072.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/11/2021

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: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-33195

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.3

Temporal Score: 6.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:etcd, 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: 12/9/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/27/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-31525, CVE-2021-33195, CVE-2021-33197, CVE-2021-33198

CWE: 120, 20, 400

RHSA: 2021:5072