RHEL 8 : webkit2gtk3 (RHSA-2022:6540)

high Nessus Plugin ID 165195

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for webkit2gtk3.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:6540 advisory.

WebKitGTK is the port of the portable web rendering engine WebKit to the GTK platform.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: webkit2gtk3 (2.36.7).

Security Fix(es):

* webkitgtk: processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2022-32893)

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 webkit2gtk3 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2022:6540.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?279abd90

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:6540

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2121645

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 165195

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-6540.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/15/2022

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-32893

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 8.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:webkit2gtk3, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:webkit2gtk3-jsc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:webkit2gtk3-jsc-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:webkit2gtk3-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8

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: 9/15/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/18/2022

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 9/8/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-32893

CWE: 787

RHSA: 2022:6540