RHEL 8 : pcs (RHSA-2023:0857)

high Nessus Plugin ID 171699

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:0857 advisory.

The pcs packages provide a command-line configuration system for the Pacemaker and Corosync utilities.

Security Fix(es):

* sinatra: Reflected File Download attack (CVE-2022-45442)

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 pcs package based on the guidance in RHSA-2023:0857.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?913aa2dc

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:0857

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2153363

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 171699

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-0857.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/21/2023

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: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-45442

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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:pcs-snmp, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pcs

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: 2/21/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/26/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-45442

CWE: 494

RHSA: 2023:0857