Fedora 38 : subscription-manager (2023-29a012c0db)

high Nessus Plugin ID 180437

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Fedora 38 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-29a012c0db advisory.

Automatic update for subscription-manager-1.29.37-1.fc38.

##### **Changelog for subscription-manager**

```
* Wed Aug 23 2023 Packit <[email protected]> - 1.29.37-1
- Automatic commit of package [subscription-manager] release [1.29.37-1]. (Pino Toscano)
- Translated using Weblate (Korean) ()
- Update translation files (Weblate)
- 2225446: Hotfix of D-Bus policy (Jiri Hnidek)
- TESTING: Update testing requirements (Matyas Horky)
- Use Fedora registry to pull container images (Matyas Horky)
- 2232316: dbus: check force again from the registration option (Pino Toscano)
- dbus: run EntCertActionInvoker on PoolAttach (Pino Toscano)
- ENT-5624: Properly translate error strings (Matyas Horky)
- Mock IOError for Insights fact collection tests (Matyas Horky)
- New extraction for translatable strings (Pino Toscano)

```


Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora 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 affected subscription-manager package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-29a012c0db

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 180437

File Name: fedora_2023-29a012c0db.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/1/2023

Updated: 11/14/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-3899

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/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: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:subscription-manager, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:38

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/23/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/23/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-3899