RHEL 9 : OpenShift Container Platform 4.14.2 (RHSA-2023:6839)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 194361

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for OpenShift Container Platform 4.14.2.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:6839 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 4.14.2. Read the following advisory for the container images for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6837

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/red_hat_build_of_microshift/4.14/html/release_notes/index

Security Fix(es):

* golang: net/http, x/net/http2: rapid stream resets can cause excessive work (CVE-2023-44487) (CVE-2023-39325)
* HTTP/2: Multiple HTTP/2 enabled web servers are vulnerable to a DDoS attack (Rapid Reset Attack) (CVE-2023-44487)

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.

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 4.14.2 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2023:6839.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 194361

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-6839.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

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: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-44487

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.3

Threat Score: 9.3

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:A

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

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

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: 11/16/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/10/2023

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 10/31/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-39325, CVE-2023-44487

CWE: 400

RHSA: 2023:6839

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