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RHEL 8 : prometheus-jmx-exporter (RHSA-2022:6820)
high Nessus Plugin ID 165720
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Synopsis
The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for prometheus-jmx-exporter.Description
The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:6820 advisory.Prometheus JMX Exporter is a JMX to Prometheus exporter: a collector that can be configured to scrape and expose MBeans of a JMX target.
Security Fix(es):
* snakeyaml: Denial of Service due to missing nested depth limitation for collections (CVE-2022-25857)
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 prometheus-jmx-exporter package based on the guidance in RHSA-2022:6820.See Also
http://www.nessus.org/u?f97568d8
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 165720
File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-6820.nasl
Version: 1.9
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks
Published: 10/6/2022
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: High
Base Score: 7.8
Temporal Score: 6.1
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-25857
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.5
Temporal Score: 6.7
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:prometheus-jmx-exporter-openjdk8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:prometheus-jmx-exporter-openjdk17, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:prometheus-jmx-exporter-openjdk11, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:prometheus-jmx-exporter, 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: 10/6/2022
Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/30/2022
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2022-25857