RHEL 7 / 8 : OpenShift Container Platform 4.7.41 (RHSA-2022:0114)

high Nessus Plugin ID 156905

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for OpenShift Container Platform 4.7.41.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 / 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:0114 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 4.7.41. See the following advisory for the container images for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2022:0117

Security Fix(es):

* haproxy: an HTTP method name may contain a space followed by the name of a protected resource (CVE-2021-39241)
* haproxy: request smuggling attack or response splitting via duplicate content-length header (CVE-2021-40346)

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.

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

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 4.7.41 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2022:0114.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?addcd56a

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:0114

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1995107

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2000599

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 156905

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-0114.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/20/2022

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: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-40346

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:haproxy20, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:haproxy, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

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: 1/19/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/17/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-39241, CVE-2021-40346

CWE: 20, 444

IAVB: 2021-B-0056

RHSA: 2022:0114