RHEL 6 : httpd (RHSA-2022:1173)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 159489

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for httpd.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:1173 advisory.

The httpd packages provide the Apache HTTP Server, a powerful, efficient, and extensible web server.

Security Fix(es):

* httpd: Errors encountered during the discarding of request body lead to HTTP request smuggling (CVE-2022-22720)

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

Solution

Update the RHEL httpd package based on the guidance in RHSA-2022:1173.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?69c6b778

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:1173

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2064321

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 159489

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-1173.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/4/2022

Updated: 11/7/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, 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-2022-22720

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:httpd-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mod_ssl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:httpd-tools, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:httpd-manual, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_els:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:httpd

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: 4/4/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/14/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-22720

CWE: 444

IAVA: 2022-A-0124-S

RHSA: 2022:1173