The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:0424 advisory.

    The RPM Package Manager (RPM) is a command-line driven package management system capable of installing,     uninstalling, verifying, querying, and updating software packages.

    Security Fix(es):

    * rpm: TOCTOU race in checks for unsafe symlinks (CVE-2021-35937)

    * rpm: races with chown/chmod/capabilities calls during installation (CVE-2021-35938)

    * rpm: checks for unsafe symlinks are not performed for intermediary directories (CVE-2021-35939)

    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 these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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RHEL 8 : rpm (RHSA-2024:0424)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 189556

Version 1.3

Version 1.2

Version 1.1

Version 1.0

Version 1.3 Nov 7, 2024, 2:36 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411071436
Version 1.2 Jun 4, 2024, 3:18 AM Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202406040318
Version 1.1 Apr 28, 2024, 2:25 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202404281425
Version 1.0 Jan 26, 2024, 12:01 AM New Plugin Feed: 202401260001