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RHEL 8 : booth (RHSA-2022:6250)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 164516
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Synopsis
The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for booth.Description
The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:6250 advisory.The Booth cluster ticket manager is a component to bridge high availability clusters spanning multiple sites, in particular, to provide decision inputs to local Pacemaker cluster resource managers. It operates as a distributed consensus-based service, presumably on a separate physical network. Tickets facilitated by a Booth formation are the units of authorization that can be bound to certain resources. This will ensure that the resources are run at only one (granted) site at a time.
Security Fix(es):
* booth: authfile directive in booth config file is completely ignored. (CVE-2022-2553)
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 booth package based on the guidance in RHSA-2022:6250.See Also
http://www.nessus.org/u?2068f0ef
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 164516
File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-6250.nasl
Version: 1.10
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks
Published: 8/31/2022
Updated: 11/8/2024
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Low
Score: 2.5
Vendor
Vendor Severity: Moderate
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.4
Temporal Score: 4.7
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-2553
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.5
Temporal Score: 5.7
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:booth-test, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:booth-arbitrator, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:booth-site, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.4, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:booth, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:booth-core
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: 8/30/2022
Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/28/2022
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2022-2553