RHEL 7 : openstack-octavia (RHSA-2019:0567)

high Nessus Plugin ID 194015

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for openstack-octavia.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2019:0567 advisory.

The OpenStack Load Balancing service (openstack-octavia) provides a Load Balancing-as-a-Service (LBaaS) version 2 implementation for Red Hat OpenStack platform director based installations.

Security Fix(es):

* openstack-octavia: Private keys written to world-readable log files (CVE-2018-16856)

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.

Bug Fix(es):

* This feature is community support and not supported by Red Hat per RHOSP SLA. (BZ#1671022)

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 openstack-octavia package based on the guidance in RHSA-2019:0567.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 194015

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-0567.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 4/27/2024

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: 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-2018-16856

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: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:openstack-octavia-api, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openstack-octavia-health-manager, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openstack-octavia-diskimage-create, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openstack-octavia-worker, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openstack-octavia-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-octavia, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openstack-octavia-amphora-agent, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-octavia-tests-golang, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openstack-octavia-housekeeping, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openstack-octavia

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: 3/14/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/14/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-16856

CWE: 532

RHSA: 2019:0567

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