RHEL 8 : edk2 (RHSA-2023:6919) (deprecated)

high Nessus Plugin ID 185653

Synopsis

This plugin has been deprecated.

Description

This plugin has been deprecated due to only referencing a CVE that has been rejected.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:6919 advisory.

- Rejected reason: DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: none. Reason: This candidate was in a CNA pool that was not assigned to any issues during 2019. Notes: none. (CVE-2019-14560)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-14560

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6919

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 185653

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-6919.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/14/2023

Updated: 1/16/2024

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

Risk Information

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-14560

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.4

Temporal Score: 7.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/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:edk2-ovmf, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:edk2-aarch64

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: 11/14/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/28/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-14560

CWE: 252

RHSA: 2023:6919