RHEL 8 : prometheus-jmx-exporter (RHSA-2022:6820)

high Nessus Plugin ID 165720

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2126789

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:6820

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 165720

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-6820.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/6/2022

Updated: 11/7/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless 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

CWE: 400

RHSA: 2022:6820