RHEL 7 : qpid-proton (RHSA-2019:1399)

high Nessus Plugin ID 194151

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for qpid-proton.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2019:1399 advisory.

The AMQ Client enables connecting, sending, and receiving messages over the AMQP 1.0 wire transport protocol.

This update provides various bug fixes and enhancements in addition to the client package versions previously released on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Security Fix(es):

* qpid-proton: TLS Man in the Middle Vulnerability (CVE-2019-0223)

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 qpid-proton package based on the guidance in RHSA-2019:1399.

See Also

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1702439

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1707869

http://www.nessus.org/u?6626e34c

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1399

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 194151

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-1399.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/28/2024

Updated: 11/6/2024

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: 5.2

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-0223

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.4

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-qpid-proton, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qpid-proton-c, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qpid-proton, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

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: 6/6/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/23/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-0223

CWE: 300

RHSA: 2019:1399