RHEL 8 / 9 : OpenShift Container Platform 4.13.0 (RHSA-2023:1325)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 194235

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for OpenShift Container Platform 4.13.0.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 / 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:1325 advisory.

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

This advisory contains the RPM packages for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13.0. See the following advisory for the container images for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:1326

Security Fix(es):

* python-werkzeug: high resource usage when parsing multipart form data with many fields (CVE-2023-25577)

* golang: net/http: excessive memory growth in a Go server accepting HTTP/2 requests (CVE-2022-41717)

* net/http, golang.org/x/net/http2: avoid quadratic complexity in HPACK decoding (CVE-2022-41723)

* golang: crypto/tls: large handshake records may cause panics (CVE-2022-41724)

* golang: net/http, mime/multipart: denial of service from excessive resource consumption (CVE-2022-41725)

* haproxy: segfault DoS (CVE-2023-0056)

* openshift/apiserver-library-go: Bypass of SCC seccomp profile restrictions (CVE-2023-0229)

* podman: symlink exchange attack in podman export volume (CVE-2023-0778)

* haproxy: request smuggling attack in HTTP/1 header parsing (CVE-2023-25725)

* buildah: possible information disclosure and modification (CVE-2022-2990)

* OpenShift: Missing HTTP Strict Transport Security (CVE-2022-3259)

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 OpenShift Container Platform 4.13 users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages and images when they are available in the appropriate release channel. To check for available updates, use the OpenShift CLI (oc) or web console. Instructions for upgrading a cluster are available at https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.13/updating/updating-cluster-cli.html

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 4.13.0 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2023:1325.

See Also

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

http://www.nessus.org/u?9f4595d6

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2103220

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2121453

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2160349

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2160808

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2161274

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2168256

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2169089

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2170242

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2178358

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2178488

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2178492

http://www.nessus.org/u?385e8646

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:1325

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 194235

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-1325.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/28/2024

Updated: 6/4/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-27191

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 8.2

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-25725

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openshift-clients, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:haproxy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-gvproxy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openshift, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:buildah-tests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openshift-clients-redistributable, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:buildah, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-remote, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-catatonit, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-plugins, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-tests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:skopeo-tests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-docker, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-werkzeug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:skopeo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cri-o, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-werkzeug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:haproxy22, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openshift-hyperkube

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: 5/18/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/18/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-27191, CVE-2022-2990, CVE-2022-3259, CVE-2022-41717, CVE-2022-41722, CVE-2022-41723, CVE-2022-41724, CVE-2022-41725, CVE-2023-0056, CVE-2023-0229, CVE-2023-0778, CVE-2023-25577, CVE-2023-25725

CWE: 20, 22, 327, 367, 400, 444, 665, 770, 842

RHSA: 2023:1325