RHEL 7 : novnc (RHSA-2020:0754)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 170343

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:0754 advisory.

The novnc package provides a VNC client that uses HTML5 (Web Sockets, Canvas) and includes encryption support.

An XSS vulnerability was discovered in noVNC in which arbitrary HTML could be injected into the noVNC web page. An attacker having access to a VNC server could use target host values in a crafted URL to gain access to secure information (such as VM tokens). (CVE-2017-18635)

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 novnc package based on the guidance in RHSA-2020:0754.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 170343

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-0754.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 1/23/2023

Updated: 11/7/2024

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: 3.8

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-18635

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:novnc, 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: 3/10/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/25/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-18635

CWE: 79

RHSA: 2020:0754

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