RHEL 9 : ipa (RHSA-2024:2147)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 194806

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for ipa.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:2147 advisory.

Red Hat Identity Management (IdM) is a centralized authentication, identity management, and authorization solution for both traditional and cloud-based enterprise environments.

Security Fix(es):

* freeipa: specially crafted HTTP requests potentially lead to denial of service (CVE-2024-1481)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Release Notes linked from 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 ipa package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:2147.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?5bbd4d5d

http://www.nessus.org/u?d922e0bf

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2147

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2262169

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-11652

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-14292

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-14428

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-14842

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-15443

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-15444

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-16985

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-21059

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-21804

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-21810

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-21811

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-21812

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-21937

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-22372

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-23621

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-23625

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-23627

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-25738

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-25815

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-28258

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-4966

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 194806

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-2147.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/30/2024

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: 2.2

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-1481

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ipa-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ipa-server-trust-ad, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-ipaclient, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ipa-client, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-ipalib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ipa-client-common, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ipa-client-samba, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ipa-client-epn, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ipa, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ipa-server-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-ipaserver, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-ipatests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ipa-selinux, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ipa-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ipa-server-dns

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: 4/30/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/22/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-1481

CWE: 20

RHSA: 2024:2147