RHEL 7 : rh-postgresql10-postgresql (RHSA-2020:5110)

high Nessus Plugin ID 170301

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for rh-postgresql10-postgresql.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:5110 advisory.

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system (DBMS).

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: rh-postgresql10-postgresql (10.14).

Security Fix(es):

* postgresql: Uncontrolled search path element in logical replication (CVE-2020-14349)

* postgresql: Uncontrolled search path element in CREATE EXTENSION (CVE-2020-14350)

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 these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL rh-postgresql10-postgresql package based on the guidance in RHSA-2020:5110.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?a00b14fa

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:5110

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1865744

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1865746

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 170301

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-5110.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/23/2023

Updated: 6/3/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-14349

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.3

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-14350

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-postgresql10-postgresql-contrib-syspaths, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-postgresql10-postgresql-syspaths, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-postgresql10-postgresql-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-postgresql10-postgresql-libs, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-postgresql10-postgresql-plpython, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-postgresql10-postgresql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-postgresql10-postgresql-docs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-postgresql10-postgresql-contrib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-postgresql10-postgresql-plperl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-postgresql10-postgresql-static, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-postgresql10-postgresql-server-syspaths, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-postgresql10-postgresql-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-postgresql10-postgresql-test, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-postgresql10-postgresql-pltcl

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: 11/18/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/13/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-14349, CVE-2020-14350

CWE: 20

RHSA: 2020:5110