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RHEL 8 : openstack-selinux (RHSA-2020:4381)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 170345

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for openstack-selinux.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:4381 advisory.

 The openstack-selinux package is a collection of SELinux policies for running OpenStack on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

 Security Fix(es):

 * policy flaw allows dbus messaging (CVE-2020-1690)

 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 openstack-selinux package based on the guidance in RHSA-2020:4381.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?3d529f7c

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4381

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1789640

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1872651

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 170345

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-4381.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/23/2023

Updated: 6/4/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-1690

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openstack-selinux

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: 10/28/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/28/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-1690

CWE: 285

RHSA: 2020:4381