RHEL 8 : perl-HTTP-Tiny (RHSA-2023:7174)

high Nessus Plugin ID 185672

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for perl-HTTP-Tiny.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:7174 advisory.

HTTP::Tiny is a small and simple HTTP/1.1 client written in Perl.

Security Fix(es):

* http-tiny: insecure TLS cert default (CVE-2023-31486)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.9 Release Notes linked from 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 perl-HTTP-Tiny package based on the guidance in RHSA-2023:7174.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?3fe97237

http://www.nessus.org/u?819248f8

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2228392

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7174

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 185672

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-7174.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/14/2023

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.6

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-31486

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/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:perl-http-tiny, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8

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: 4/29/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-31486

CWE: 1188

RHSA: 2023:7174