RHEL 7 : rhc-worker-script (RHSA-2024:1244)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 191793

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for rhc-worker-script.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:1244 advisory.

The rhc-worker-script packages provide Remote Host Configuration (rhc) worker for executing an interpreted programming language script on hosts managed by Red Hat Insights.

Security Fix(es):

* golang: net/http/internal: Denial of Service (DoS) via Resource Consumption via HTTP requests (CVE-2023-39326)

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 rhc-worker-script package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:1244.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?e80e756c

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2253330

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1244

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 191793

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-1244.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/11/2024

Updated: 11/8/2024

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: 1.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-39326

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rhc-worker-script, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

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: 3/11/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/6/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-39326

CWE: 400

RHSA: 2024:1244