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RHEL 7 / 8 : Synopsis: Red Hat OpenStack Platform (openstack-cinder) (RHSA-2023:1279)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 194260

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for Synopsis: Red Hat OpenStack Platform (openstack-cinder).

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 / 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:1279 advisory.

 Cinder is the replacement of nova-volume in Folsom and beyond, used for block storage.

 Security Fix(es):

 * Arbitrary file access through custom VMDK flat descriptor (CVE-2022-47951)

 For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page 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 Synopsis: Red Hat OpenStack Platform (openstack-cinder) package based on the guidance in RHSA-2023:1279.

See Also

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2161812

http://www.nessus.org/u?a9f8f3df

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:1279

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 194260

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-1279.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: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-47951

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.7

Temporal Score: 5.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-cinder, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openstack-cinder, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-cinder

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: 3/15/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/26/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-47951

CWE: 552

RHSA: 2023:1279