RHEL 8 : Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2 (openstack-barbican) (RHSA-2023:6231)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 194394

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2 (openstack-barbican).

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:6231 advisory.

Barbican is a ReST API designed for the secure storage, provisioning and management of secrets, including in OpenStack environments.

Security Fix(es):

* Insecure Barbican configuration file leaking credential (CVE-2023-1633)

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 Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2 (openstack-barbican) package based on the guidance in RHSA-2023:6231.

See Also

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2181761

http://www.nessus.org/u?a896f397

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6231

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 194394

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-6231.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: Low

Score: 3.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-1633

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openstack-barbican, 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: 11/8/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/24/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-1633

CWE: 200

RHSA: 2023:6231