RHEL 9 : Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.1 (rabbitmq-server) (RHSA-2024:0217)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 189081

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.1 (rabbitmq-server).

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:0217 advisory.

RabbitMQ is an implementation of AMQP, the emerging standard for high performance enterprise messaging.
The RabbitMQ server is a robust and scalable implementation of an AMQP broker.

Security Fix(es):

* rabbitmq-server: DoS by publishing large messages over the HTTP API (CVE-2023-46118)

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 Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.1 (rabbitmq-server) package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:0217.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?7a3f678b

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2246512

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0217

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 189081

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-0217.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/16/2024

Updated: 6/3/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-46118

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rabbitmq-server, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9

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: 1/16/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/23/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-46118

CWE: 400

RHSA: 2024:0217