RHEL 8 : prometheus-jmx-exporter (RHSA-2022:9058)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 168925

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-2022:9058 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: Constructor Deserialization Remote Code Execution (CVE-2022-1471)

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-2022:9058.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?767e84b1

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-1471

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2150009

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:9058

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 168925

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-9058.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/19/2022

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: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-1471

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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: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, 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: 12/15/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/1/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-1471

CWE: 502

RHSA: 2022:9058