RHEL 8 : fwupd (RHSA-2024:1106)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 191570

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for fwupd.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:1106 advisory.

The fwupd packages provide a service that allows session software to update device firmware.

Security Fix(es):

* fwupd: world readable password in /etc/fwupd/redfish.conf (CVE-2022-3287)

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 fwupd package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:1106.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?6aca0427

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2129904

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1106

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 191570

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-1106.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/5/2024

Updated: 11/7/2024

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-2022-3287

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:fwupd, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fwupd-devel

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: 3/5/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/28/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-3287

CWE: 552

RHSA: 2024:1106