RHEL 8 / 9 : OpenShift Container Platform 4.13.5 (RHSA-2023:4093)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 194257

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for OpenShift Container Platform 4.13.5.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 / 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:4093 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 4.13.5. See the following advisory for the container images for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:4091

Security Fix(es):

* openshift: OCP & FIPS mode (CVE-2023-3089)

* kube-apiserver: PrivEsc (CVE-2023-1260)

* 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)

* runc: volume mount race condition (regression of CVE-2019-19921) (CVE-2023-27561)

* 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 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 4.13.5 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2023:4093.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?3fbb4b73

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

https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/RHSB-2023-001

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2175721

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2176267

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2184481

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2184482

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2184483

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2184484

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2196026

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2196029

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2212085

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:4093

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 194257

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-4093.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/28/2024

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.3

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

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:openshift-clients, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openshift, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openshift-clients-redistributable, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openshift-hyperkube, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8

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: 7/20/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/3/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-1260, CVE-2023-24534, CVE-2023-24536, CVE-2023-24537, CVE-2023-24538, CVE-2023-24539, CVE-2023-29400, CVE-2023-3089

CWE: 176, 288, 400, 693, 835, 94

RHSA: 2023:4093