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RHCOS 4 : OpenShift Container Platform 4.12.4 (RHSA-2023:0772)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 189421

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat CoreOS host is missing a security update for OpenShift Container Platform 4.12.4.

Description

The remote Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS 4 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:0772 advisory.

 - Users authorized to list or watch one type of namespaced custom resource cluster-wide can read custom resources of a different type in the same API group without authorization. Clusters are impacted by this vulnerability if all of the following are true: 1. There are 2+ CustomResourceDefinitions sharing the same API group 2. Users have cluster-wide list or watch authorization on one of those custom resources. 3. The same users are not authorized to read another custom resource in the same API group. (CVE-2022-3162)

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 RHCOS OpenShift Container Platform 4.12.4 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2023:0772.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-3162

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:0772

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 189421

File Name: rhcos-RHSA-2023-0772.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/24/2024

Updated: 1/24/2024

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

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-3162

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:microshift, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:microshift-release-info, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:microshift-selinux, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:microshift-networking, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8:coreos

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: 2/20/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/18/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-3162

RHSA: 2023:0772