RHEL 8 : redhat-ds:11 (RHSA-2021:3955)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 194190

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2021:3955 advisory.

Red Hat Directory Server is an LDAPv3-compliant directory server. The suite of packages includes the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) server, as well as command-line utilities and Web UI packages for server administration.

This release provides a number of security fixes, bug fixes and enhancements. For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Directory Server 11 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Security Fix(es):

* 389-ds-base: CRYPT password hash with asterisk allows any bind attempt to succeed (CVE-2021-3652)

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.

Users of Red Hat Directory Server 11 are advised to upgrade to these updated packages.

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.

See Also

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

http://www.nessus.org/u?18c2d1fe

http://www.nessus.org/u?7ff2f1f9

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1902303

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1903350

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1931820

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1947469

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1951537

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1955658

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1974226

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1974243

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1979612

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1981833

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1982782

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3955

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 194190

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2021-3955.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/28/2024

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3652

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:389-ds-base-snmp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-lib389, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:389-ds-base, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:389-ds-base-legacy-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cockpit-389-ds, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:389-ds-base-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:389-ds-base-libs

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: 10/25/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/28/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-3514, CVE-2021-3652

CWE: 287, 476

RHSA: 2021:3955