RHEL 8 : Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.1.9 (puppet-firewall) (RHSA-2022:8869)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 170367

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.1.9 (puppet-firewall).

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:8869 advisory.

Manages Firewalls such as iptables

Security Fix(es):

* unmanaged rules could leave system in an unsafe state via duplicate comment (CVE-2022-0675)

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 Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.1.9 (puppet-firewall) package based on the guidance in RHSA-2022:8869.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?39fea33d

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:8869

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2071567

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 170367

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-8869.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/23/2023

Updated: 6/3/2024

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

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-0675

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:puppet-firewall, 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: 12/7/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/2/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-0675

CWE: 1289

RHSA: 2022:8869