RHEL 7 : Red Hat CloudForms (RHSA-2018:0374)

high Nessus Plugin ID 194051

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2018:0374 advisory.

Ansible is a simple model-driven configuration management, multi-node deployment, and remote-task execution system. Ansible works over SSH and does not require any software or daemons to be installed on remote nodes. Extension modules can be written in any language and are transferred to managed machines automatically.

Ansible Tower helps you scale IT automation, manage complex deployments and speed productivity. Centralize and control your IT infrastructure with a visual dashboard, role-based access control, job scheduling, integrated notifications and graphical inventory management. And Ansible Tower's REST API and CLI make it easy to embed Ansible Tower into existing tools and processes.

Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine delivers the insight, control, and automation needed to address the challenges of managing virtual environments. CloudForms Management Engine is built on Ruby on Rails, a model-view-controller (MVC) framework for web application development. Action Pack implements the controller and the view components.

Security Fix(es):

* A flaw was found in the CloudForms account configuration when using VMware. By default, a shared account is used that has privileged access to VMRC (VMWare Remote Console) functions that may not be appropriate for users of CloudForms (and thus this account). An attacker could use this vulnerability to view and make changes to settings in the VMRC and virtual machines controlled by it that they should not have access to.
(CVE-2017-12191)

This issue was discovered by Gellert Kis (Red Hat).

Additional Changes:

This update also fixes several bugs and adds various enhancements. Documentation for these changes is available from the Release Notes document linked to 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 affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 194051

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-0374.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 4/27/2024

Updated: 6/3/2024

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: 4.0

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-12191

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.4

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ansible-tower-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-paramiko-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-jmespath, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-crypto, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cfme-gemset, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postgresql94, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ansible-tower-setup, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postgresql94-docs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postgresql94-plperl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postgresql94-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cfme, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postgresql94-contrib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postgresql94-plpython, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cfme-appliance, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-jmespath, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postgresql94-test, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postgresql94-pltcl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postgresql94-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ansible, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-crypto, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postgresql94-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-paramiko

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: 2/28/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/28/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-12191

CWE: 284

RHSA: 2018:0374

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