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AlmaLinux 8 : prometheus-jmx-exporter (ALSA-2022:6820)

high Nessus Plugin ID 165794

Synopsis

The remote AlmaLinux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALSA-2022:6820 advisory.

 - The package org.yaml:snakeyaml from 0 and before 1.31 are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) due missing to nested depth limitation for collections. (CVE-2022-25857)

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 affected prometheus-jmx-exporter and / or prometheus-jmx-exporter-openjdk11 packages.

See Also

https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2022-6820.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 165794

File Name: alma_linux_ALSA-2022-6820.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Published: 10/8/2022

Updated: 10/10/2023

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.4

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: 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:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:alma:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:prometheus-jmx-exporter, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:prometheus-jmx-exporter-openjdk11

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/AlmaLinux/release, Host/AlmaLinux/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