RHEL 8 : rabbitmq-server (RHSA-2020:0553)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 170285

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for rabbitmq-server.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:0553 advisory.

RabbitMQ is an implementation of AMQP, the emerging standard for high performance enterprise messaging. The RabbitMQ server is a robust and scalable implementation of an AMQP broker.

Security Fix(es):

* not properly sanitized user input may lead to XSS (CVE-2019-11291)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page 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 rabbitmq-server package based on the guidance in RHSA-2020:0553.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?a33e0bad

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0553

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1783327

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1786326

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 170285

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-0553.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/23/2023

Updated: 11/8/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.5

Temporal Score: 2.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-11291

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.8

Temporal Score: 4.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rabbitmq-server, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8

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: 2/19/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/22/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-11291

CWE: 79

RHSA: 2020:0553