RHEL 7 / 8 : OpenShift Container Platform 4.9.0 (RHSA-2021:3758)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 165134

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for OpenShift Container Platform 4.9.0.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 / 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2021:3758 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 4.9.0. See the following advisory for the container images for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3759

Security Fix(es):

* jetty: requests to the ConcatServlet and WelcomeFilter are able to access protected resources within the WEB-INF directory (CVE-2021-28169)

* golang: archive/zip: malformed archive may cause panic or memory exhaustion (CVE-2021-33196)

* openvswitch: use-after-free in decode_NXAST_RAW_ENCAP during the decoding of a RAW_ENCAP action (CVE-2021-36980)

* jetty: SessionListener can prevent a session from being invalidated breaking logout (CVE-2021-34428)

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 4.9 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/4.9/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 4.9.0 packages based on the guidance in RHSA-2021:3758.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?ed8dcce3

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3758

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1965503

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1971016

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1974891

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1984473

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 165134

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2021-3758.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/15/2022

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: 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:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-28169

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3917

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-openvswitch2.15, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openvswitch2.15-ipsec, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openshift, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jenkins, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:network-scripts-openvswitch2.15, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openvswitch2.15, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openshift-hyperkube, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openvswitch2.15-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:coreos-installer-bootinfra, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openvswitch2.15-test, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:coreos-installer

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: 10/18/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/9/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-28169, CVE-2021-33196, CVE-2021-34428, CVE-2021-36980, CVE-2021-3917

CWE: 200, 276, 400, 416, 613

RHSA: 2021:3758