RHEL 8 : Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.1 (openstack-nova) (RHSA-2022:0983)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 159218

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.1 (openstack-nova).

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:0983 advisory.

OpenStack Compute (codename Nova) is open source software designed to provision and manage large networks of virtual machines, creating a redundant and scalable cloud computing platform. It gives you the software, control panels, and APIs required to orchestrate a cloud, including running instances, managing networks, and controlling access through users and projects.OpenStack Compute strives to be both hardware and hypervisor agnostic, currently supporting a variety of standard hardware configurations and seven major hypervisors.

Security Fix(es):

* novnc allows open redirection (CVE-2021-3654)

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 this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.1 (openstack-nova) package based on the guidance in RHSA-2022:0983.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 159218

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-0983.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 3/25/2022

Updated: 6/4/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3654

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:openstack-nova-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openstack-nova-compute, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openstack-nova-spicehtml5proxy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openstack-nova-scheduler, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-nova, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openstack-nova-novncproxy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openstack-nova, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openstack-nova-serialproxy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openstack-nova-conductor, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openstack-nova-api, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openstack-nova-console, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openstack-nova-migration

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: 3/24/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/2/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-3654

CWE: 601

RHSA: 2022:0983

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