RHEL 7 : hsqldb (RHSA-2022:8560)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 168028

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:8560 advisory.

The hsqldb packages provide a relational database management system written in Java. The Hyper Structured Query Language Database (HSQLDB) contains a JDBC driver to support a subset of ANSI-92 SQL.

Security Fix(es):

* hsqldb: Untrusted input may lead to RCE attack (CVE-2022-41853)

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 hsqldb package based on the guidance in RHSA-2022:8560.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?88f03b76

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2136141

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:8560

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 168028

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-8560.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/21/2022

Updated: 11/5/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-41853

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:hsqldb-manual, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:hsqldb-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:hsqldb, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:hsqldb-demo

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/21/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/6/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-41853

CWE: 470

RHSA: 2022:8560