SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : kubernetes1.23 (SUSE-SU-2023:2691-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 177718

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:2691-1 advisory.

- A security issue was discovered in Kubelet that allows pods to bypass the seccomp profile enforcement.
Pods that use localhost type for seccomp profile but specify an empty profile field, are affected by this issue. In this scenario, this vulnerability allows the pod to run in unconfined (seccomp disabled) mode.
This bug affects Kubelet. (CVE-2023-2431)

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 affected packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1212493

https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2023-June/030117.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-2431

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 177718

File Name: suse_SU-2023-2691-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/29/2023

Updated: 7/14/2023

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: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-2431

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kubernetes1.23-client, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kubernetes1.23-client-common, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/28/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/16/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-2431

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:2691-1