RHEL 8 : Satellite 6.13.3 Async Security Update (Important) (RHSA-2023:4466)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 194309

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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-2023:4466 advisory.

Red Hat Satellite is a system management solution that allows organizations to configure and maintain their systems without the necessity to provide public Internet access to their servers or other client systems. It performs provisioning and configuration management of predefined standard operating environments.

Security fix(es):

foreman: Arbitrary code execution through templates. (CVE-2023-0118) python-future: remote attackers can cause denial of service via crafted Set-Cookie header from malicious web server (CVE-2022-40899)

This update fixes the following bugs:

2159659 - CVE-2023-0118 foreman: Arbitrary code execution through templates [rhn_satellite_6.13] 2211954 - [email protected] Unable to enable callback plugin per-template 2218653 - Unable to enable any repository in network sync 2218659 - Can't rerun a failed content-import task if it was exported using chunks 2218660 - Host-Registered Content Hosts Report gives error while generating - undefined method `nvra' for nil:NilClass 2218661 - Yet another deadlock during Capsule sync, now when existing content changed 2218954 - [email protected] [Regression] VMware Image-based and full host boot disk based Provisioning fails with error-: Could not find virtual machine network interface matching <IP> 2218955 - CVE-2022-40899 python-future: remote attackers can cause denial of service via crafted Set- Cookie header from malicious web server [rhn_satellite_6-default] 2218979 - Custom repo sync failed Cannot open /var/lib/pulp/tmp/[email protected]/tmpzmdau7qg/tmpy_kkhu3a: Cannot detect compression type 2224023 - undefined method `event' for nil:NilClass in production.log when trying to remediate insights issues from CRC.
2218656 - satellite-maintain packages check-update fails when there are no packages to be updated.
2218657 - Should not be able to assign LE on the client profile which is not synced on the capsule server

Users of Red Hat Satellite are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs.

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 python39-future and / or rubygem-safemode packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 194309

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-4466.nasl

Version: 1.2

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: High

Score: 7.3

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.3

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-0118

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 8.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-future, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-safemode, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-future

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: 8/3/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/23/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-40899, CVE-2023-0118

CWE: 400, 78

RHSA: 2023:4466

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