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RHCOS 4 : OpenShift Container Platform 4.14.18 (RHSA-2024:1461)

high Nessus Plugin ID 192601

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat CoreOS host is missing a security update for OpenShift Container Platform 4.14.18.

Description

The remote Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS 4 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:1461 advisory.

 - The protojson.Unmarshal function can enter an infinite loop when unmarshaling certain forms of invalid JSON. This condition can occur when unmarshaling into a message which contains a google.protobuf.Any value, or when the UnmarshalOptions.DiscardUnknown option is set. (CVE-2024-24786)

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 4.14.18 packages based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:1461.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-24786

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1461

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 192601

File Name: rhcos-RHSA-2024-1461.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/27/2024

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: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-24786

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8:coreos, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9:coreos, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cri-o

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: 3/27/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/5/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-24786

CWE: 835

RHSA: 2024:1461