RHEL 6 / 7 / 8 : Satellite Tools 6.9.9 Async Bug Fix Update (Important) (RHSA-2022:4867)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 161763

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 / 7 / 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:4867 advisory.

Red Hat Satellite is a system management solution that allows organizations to configure and maintain their systems without the necessity to provide public Internet access to their servers or other client systems. It performs provisioning and configuration management of predefined standard operating environments.

Security Fix(es):
* Puppet Agent: Unsafe HTTP redirect (CVE-2021-27023)
* Puppet Agent: Silent configuration failure in agent (CVE-2021-27025)

Bugs Fixed:
2023853 CVE-2021-27025 puppet: silent configuration failure in agent 2023859 CVE-2021-27023 puppet: unsafe HTTP redirect 2066884 CVE-2021-27025 puppet-agent: puppet: silent configuration failure in agent [rhn_satellite_6-default]

Users of Red Hat Satellite Tools on all Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions are advised to upgrade to these updated packages.

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 affected puppet-agent package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 161763

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-4867.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 6/1/2022

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: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-27023

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:puppet-agent, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

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: 6/1/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/18/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-27023, CVE-2021-27025

CWE: 200, 665

RHSA: 2022:4867

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