RHEL 7 : rh-haproxy18-haproxy (RHSA-2020:2265)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 170315

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:2265 advisory.

HAProxy is a TCP/HTTP reverse proxy which is particularly suited for high availability environments.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: rh-haproxy18-haproxy (1.8.24).
(BZ#1774747)

Security Fix(es):

* haproxy: HTTP request smuggling issue with transfer-encoding header containing an obfuscated chunked value (CVE-2019-18277)

* haproxy: HTTP/2 implementation vulnerable to intermediary encapsulation attacks (CVE-2019-19330)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Software Collections 3.5 Release Notes linked from 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 affected rh-haproxy18-haproxy and / or rh-haproxy18-haproxy-syspaths packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 170315

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-2265.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 1/23/2023

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-19330

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:rh-haproxy18-haproxy-syspaths, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-haproxy18-haproxy, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

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: 5/26/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/23/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-18277, CVE-2019-19330

CWE: 20, 444

RHSA: 2020:2265

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