RHEL 7 : Red Hat CloudForms (RHSA-2018:1972)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 194115

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:1972 advisory.

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.

Security Fix(es):

* python-paramiko: Authentication bypass in transport.py (CVE-2018-7750)

* ansible-tower: Privilege escalation flaw allows for organization admins to obtain system privileges (CVE-2018-1101)

* ansible-tower: Remote code execution by users with access to define variables in job templates (CVE-2018-1104)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Red Hat would like to thank Simon Vikstrm for reporting CVE-2018-1104. The CVE-2018-1101 issue was discovered by Graham Mainwaring (Red Hat).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 194115

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-1972.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 4/27/2024

Updated: 6/3/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-7750

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ansible-tower-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-ruby23-rubygem-json, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ansible, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-ruby23-rubygem-json-doc, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-paramiko-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-paramiko, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cfme-appliance, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cfme-gemset, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ansible-tower-setup, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cfme

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/25/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/13/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1101, CVE-2018-1104, CVE-2018-7750

CWE: 20, 266, 287

RHSA: 2018:1972

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