RHEL 9 : webkit2gtk3 (RHSA-2023:2653)

high Nessus Plugin ID 175486

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for webkit2gtk3.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:2653 advisory.

WebKitGTK is the port of the portable web rendering engine WebKit to the GTK platform.

Security Fix(es):

* WebKitGTK: Regression of CVE-2023-28205 fixes in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (CVE-2023-2203)

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 webkit2gtk3 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2023:2653.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?5985c81f

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:2653

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2188543

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 175486

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-2653.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/13/2023

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: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-2203

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:webkit2gtk3, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:webkit2gtk3-jsc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:webkit2gtk3-jsc-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:webkit2gtk3-devel

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: 5/9/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/17/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-2203

CWE: 416

RHSA: 2023:2653