RHEL 9 : varnish (RHSA-2024:1691)

high Nessus Plugin ID 192969

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:1691 advisory.

Varnish Cache is a high-performance HTTP accelerator. It stores web pages in memory so web servers don't have to create the same web page over and over again, giving the website a significant speed up.

Security Fix(es):

* varnish: HTTP/2 Broken Window Attack may result in denial of service (CVE-2024-30156)

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 varnish package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:1691.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?0fdf8c03

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2271486

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1691

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 192969

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-1691.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/8/2024

Updated: 11/7/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-30156

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: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:varnish, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:varnish-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:varnish-docs, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9

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: 4/8/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/24/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-30156

CWE: 400

RHSA: 2024:1691