RHEL 9 : OpenShift Container Platform 4.13.3 (RHSA-2023:3540)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 194217

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for OpenShift Container Platform 4.13.3.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:3540 advisory.

Red Hat build of MicroShift is Red Hat's light-weight Kubernetes orchestration solution designed for edge device deployments and is built from the edge capabilities of Red Hat OpenShift. MicroShift is an application that is deployed on top of Red Hat Enterprise Linux devices at the edge, providing an efficient way to operate single-node clusters in these low-resource environments.

This advisory contains the RPM packages for Red Hat build of MicroShift 4.13.3. Read the following advisory for the container images for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:3537

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is Red Hat's cloud computing Kubernetes application platform solution designed for on-premise or private cloud deployments.

Security Fix(es):

* golang: net/http, net/textproto: denial of service from excessive memory allocation (CVE-2023-24534)

* golang: net/http, net/textproto, mime/multipart: denial of service from excessive resource consumption (CVE-2023-24536)

* golang: go/parser: Infinite loop in parsing (CVE-2023-24537)

* golang: html/template: backticks not treated as string delimiters (CVE-2023-24538)

* golang: html/template: improper sanitization of CSS values (CVE-2023-24539)

* golang: html/template: improper handling of empty HTML attributes (CVE-2023-29400)

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.

All of the bug fixes may not be documented in this advisory. Read the following release notes documentation for details about these changes:

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/microshift/4.13/html/release_notes/index

All Red Hat build of MicroShift 4.13 users are advised to use these updated packages and images when they are available in the RPM repository.

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 RHEL OpenShift Container Platform 4.13.3 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2023:3540.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 194217

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-3540.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

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: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-24538

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:microshift, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:microshift-release-info, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:microshift-selinux, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:microshift-networking

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: 6/13/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/6/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-24534, CVE-2023-24536, CVE-2023-24537, CVE-2023-24538, CVE-2023-24539, CVE-2023-29400

CWE: 176, 400, 835, 94

RHSA: 2023:3540

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